Haidinger fringes

[hahy-ding-er] /ˈhaɪ dɪŋ ər/

plural noun, Optics.

interference fringes produced by light passing through thick glass plates at near-normal incidence.

Origin of Haidinger fringes

named after Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger (1795-1871), Austrian mineralogist

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