File:WhiteLightInterferometry.gif

Summary

Description
English: White light interferometry: if you overlap a low-coherence signal with itself, the resulting intensity will be constant (no interference) unless the delay between the two is smaller than the coherence time, when interference fringes in the intensity appear.
Date
Source https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1144165624651931648
Author Jacopo Bertolotti
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(Reusing this file)
https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1030470604418428929

Mathematica 11.0 code

signal = Fourier[
   Table[Sqrt[E^(-((\[Omega] - 2)^2/(2 0.01^2)))] E^(I RandomReal[{0, 2 \[Pi]}]), {\[Omega], -10, 10, 0.002}]];
p1 = Table[
   GraphicsRow[{
     ListPlot[{Re@signal, Re@RotateRight[signal, j]}, PlotRange -> All, Joined -> True, Axes -> False]
     ,
     Plot[E^(-((\[Omega] - 103)^2/(2 5^2)))*Cos[\[Omega] - 103], {\[Omega], 0, 200}, PlotRange -> All, PlotStyle -> {Black}, FrameTicks -> None, Axes -> False, Frame -> True, FrameLabel -> {"\[CapitalDelta]\[Tau]", "\[Integral]|E\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\(|\), \(2\)]\)dt"}, LabelStyle -> {Black, Bold}, Epilog -> {Red, PointSize[0.03], Point[{j + 103, E^(-((j)^2/(2 5^2))) Cos[j]}]}]}, ImageSize -> Large]
   , {j, -200, 200, 1}];
ListAnimate[p1]

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