{"id":156293,"date":"2023-08-30T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=156293"},"modified":"2023-08-30T12:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:25:27","slug":"consider-a-michelson-interferometer-as-shown-in-the-figure-below-when-the-wavelength-of-the-laser-light-source-is-switched-from-400-nanometer-to-500-nanometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/consider-a-michelson-interferometer-as-shown-in-the-figure-below-when-the-wavelength-of-the-laser-light-source-is-switched-from-400-nanometer-to-500-nanometer\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider a Michelson interferometer as shown in the figure below. When the wavelength of the laser light source is switched from 400 nanometer to 500 nanometer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. Consider a Michelson interferometer as shown in the figure below. When the wavelength of the laser light source is switched from 400 nanometer to 500 nanometer, it is observed that the intensity measured at the output port P goes from a minimum to a maximum. This observation is possible when the smallest path difference between the two arms of the interferometer is nanometer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-633.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156294\" style=\"width:409px;height:228px\" width=\"409\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-633.png 555w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-633-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: 1000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wavelength used = 400 nm <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>path difference = 2x <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Destructive interference <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For destructive interference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-634.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-634.png 299w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-634-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Consider a Michelson interferometer as shown in the figure below. When the wavelength of the laser light source is switched from 400 nanometer to 500 nanometer, it is observed that the intensity measured at the output port P goes from a minimum to a maximum. This observation is possible when the smallest path difference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":156296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5141],"tags":[5140],"class_list":["post-156293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gate","tag-gate-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156297,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156293\/revisions\/156297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}