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What principle characterizes interference experiments with light in the 18th and 19th centuries?
Wave-optical methods
What type of light interference method involves the creation of two interfering light bundles from a source?
Two-beam interference
In what year did A. Fresnel introduce a method that involved making a light bundle divergent with a lens and refracting it at two prisms to create coherent partial bundles?
1826
Which optical element is used to make the light bundle divergent before being refracted at two prisms?
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What kind of phenomena do the two coherent partial bundles exhibit when superimposed in certain areas?
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