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The 30 pages that link to Michelson interferometer, each with the reason it gives.

• Infrared spectroscopyRelated: Its moving mirror creates the interferogram used in Fourier-transform infrared instruments.

• Optical coherence tomographyRelated: Many OCT systems compare sample and reference paths using this interferometer's layout.

• InterferometryBroader topic: Its adjustable arms make path differences and fringe shifts easy to measure.

• Michelson–Morley experimentBroader topic: Its perpendicular arms formed the experiment’s core measurement apparatus.

• InterferenceBroader topic: Its fringe shifts turn tiny path changes into measurable signals.

• MetreBroader topic: Its interference fringes enabled precise comparisons of optical wavelengths and lengths.

• Optical path lengthBroader topic: Its fringe shifts reveal changes in the arms’ optical path difference.

• Vibrational spectroscopyRelated: Its interferometric principle underlies many Fourier-transform infrared instruments.

• LIGONarrower topic: LIGO’s perpendicular arms form a Michelson interferometer whose output changes when their lengths shift differently.

• Fabry–Pérot interferometerCompared with: Michelson’s two-beam arrangement contrasts with the cavity’s many-beam interference.

• Gravitational wave detectorsRelated: Laser interferometers use this layout to measure changing differences in arm lengths.

• Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopyRelated: Its moving mirror creates the path differences that encode the sample’s infrared absorption.

• Virgo interferometerNarrower topic: Virgo uses this interferometer design to turn arm-length changes into shifts in the recombined light.

• Wave opticsBroader topic: Its fringes turn tiny path changes into measurable shifts.

• Coherence (physics)Related: Its fringe visibility reveals whether the two paths remain mutually coherent.

• Precision measurementRelated: Interferometry converts tiny path changes into measurable interference patterns.

• Mach–Zehnder interferometerCompared with: It shares two-arm phase comparison but sends light back through the same central optic.

• Wave interferenceBroader topic: It measures tiny path-length changes through shifts in fringe position.

• Albert A. MichelsonBroader topic: Michelson developed this instrument to compare light paths with exceptional precision.

• Newton's ringsRelated: It uses interference to measure optical path differences by a different arrangement.

• Rainer WeissBroader topic: Weiss adapted this layout to detect differential changes in LIGO’s perpendicular arms.

• Young's double-slit experimentCompared with: It measures path differences through adjustable arms instead of fixed slit spacing.

• Helium–neon laserBroader topic: A helium–neon laser is a common coherent source for demonstrating this instrument.

• Léon FoucaultCompared with: It represents a later precision-optics approach distinct from Foucault’s rotating-mirror method.

• Barry BarishNarrower topic: LIGO adapts interferometry to measure changes far smaller than an atomic nucleus.

• John L. HallRelated: Interferometric comparisons underpin the exceptionally precise frequency measurements Hall pursued.

• Edward W. MorleyBroader topic: Its perpendicular light paths made the proposed ether-wind effect testable.

• Gabriel LippmannRelated: Interferometry supplied experimental tools and concepts relevant to Lippmann’s optical investigations.

• First observation of gravitational wavesBroader topic: LIGO uses this design to measure tiny changes in arm length caused by passing waves.

• Gravitational-wave observatoryBroader topic: Its two-arm layout is the foundation of LIGO’s gravitational-wave measurement.