A MICHELSON two-beam interferometer can be used for refractive-index determination by measuring the shift of the achromatic fringe when a specimen of known thickness is placed in one arm of the ...

Refractometers are versatile in their design and use, and are able to provide results as refractive indices, or in other cases, as direct measurements of parameters such as soluble solids, sugar ...

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