Why is compensating glass plate needed in michelson interferometer?
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When light passes through a glass slab that has
a beam splitting coating on one of its sides, then the light can pass through
the glass more than one time. A glass compensating plate with the same
thickness as that of the beam splitter is placed parallel to the splitter so
that the distance traveled by each light beam through the glass is the same.
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