The basic Michelson interferometer setup uses any kind of beam splitter to divide one beam of light into two beams, each of them back-reflected to the beam splitter and recombined and directed to the fourth arm where any kind of detector is placed. One arm of the interferometer may have a different length or contain some material under test.
In this version, the Michelson interferometric setup is operated in one of our labs, but is fully remotely controllable in order to make the full learning experience tangible online. In paralell, and to fully immerse also the digital world, ASP has developed the open-source toolbox XR TwinLab (XRTL) for the research field of photonics. XRTL provides a modular way of building a web-based application and 3D printed attachments to control optical experimental setups with the integration of VR and AR endpoints.
Further content and detailed descriptions are available to enrolled students via the course's page at the Moodle website of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.