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From: sutin@astrovax.UUCP (Brian M. Sutin)
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Subject: Re: FP inretforometer
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 09:25:23 EST
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> I just heard a discussion of a Fabre Preot interformeter. It involved the
> use of 2 mirrors that had 95 % reflectance and 5 % transmission they were
> set up parrellel to each other and a given number of wavelengths apart.
> It was stated that if this device was raidated with 1 watt of light at that
> waveleignth the output at the other end would be 1 watt. And that there would
> be 20 wats of energy raidateing back and forth between the mirrors.
> Is this realy true and if so how does it work????
> 
	Just like a computer... you put 200 lines of garbage code in, it
gives you 200 lines of garbage data out.  And it always has 800 megabytes
of disk storage being used for useless junk.

Brian Sutin
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University

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