Which mechanism limits fringe visibility during optical flat testing?

💡 Explanation

Imperfect flatness or imperfections induce variations in the interacting wave paths, leading to an incomplete constructive and destructive interference. This incomplete coherent wave superposition causes a blur, because optimal fringe visibility only results from perfectly matched waveforms, rather than mismatched phases.

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