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Chapter Four: Young's interference experiment: Past, present, and future

Greg Gbur^a; Taco D. Visser^b^,^c ^a Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States^b Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands^c Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States

Abstract

The celebrated experiment of Thomas Young has had a tremendous historical influence by revealing not only the wave character of light, but also by demonstrating the wave-particle duality that was suggested by de Broglie. In addition, the foundations of coherence theory are based on observable quantities that can be measured in a two-pinhole setup. Remarkably, ...

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