Michelson interferometer Michelson lnterferometer Imaging with Michelson Interferometer Collector Beamsplitter slane Reconstructed Baseline orientations. Detector Collector Optical delay Detecto line Independent Light Collectors feed light to a common beam combiner. Get interfered fringes = Inverse Fourier Transform (CLEAN,MEM Suitable for Astronomical Objects Unchanged over a long period of time Chart: 4 16.684 Space Systems Product Development February 13, 2001 MIT Space Systems Laboratory16.684 Space Systems Product Development Chart: 4 February 13, 2001 MIT Space Systems Laboratory Michelson Interferometer Independent Light Collectors feed light to a common beam combiner. Get interfered fringes => Inverse Fourier Transform (CLEAN,MEM) Suitable for Astronomical Objects: Unchanged over a long period of time Beamsplitter Collector Collector Michelson Interferometer Stellar wavefront Detector Detector Optical delay line Object Imaging with Michelson Interferometer FT "FT-1" Baseline orientations: + y x v v v y u u u x u-v (Fourier plane) Reconstructed image