Michelson interferometer schematic
Date: 12 March 2012
Satellite: NGO
Depicts: Schematic of an idealised Michelson interferometer
Copyright: ESA
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Idealised Michelson interferometer with laser, beam splitter, end mirrors, and photodetector at the exit port. The blue arrows represent a perpendicularly propagating, linearly polarised gravitational wave.
Last Update: 1 September 2019