A theoretical investigation is made of the effects of dispersion in neutral gases on the formation of white-light fringes in an ideal Mach-Zehnder interferometer. It is found that the shift of the brightest fringe is ...
A theory of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is developed using the approach of investigating the history of a wave front produced by an element of an extended light source. Account is taken of the effects of imperfections ...