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Applications of Multiple-Beam Interferometry

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PROF. S. TOLANSKY1 has made some comments on communications by Bruce2 and Bruce, Macinante and Kelly3 on the production and applications of transmissionlike reflexion fringes. I am grateful for the reference to the paper by Lummer4 in which the principle of eliminating beams in a Haidinger fringe system is mentioned.

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BRUCE, C. Applications of Multiple-Beam Interferometry. Nature 168, 472 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168472a0

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