1 UNIT – 2 WAVE OPTICS Unit-02/Lecture-01 FRESNEL BIPRISM:- Fresnel’s biprism is made by joining two thin prisms at their base to create a single triangular shape. Light from single slit S forms spherical waves incident on the biprism. Light passing through the lower section is refracted up, while light going into the top section is refracted down, forming a region where the beams interfere. This creates two virtual sources S 1 and S 2 , with an apparent separation a. A biprism is essentially two prisms, each of very small refractive angle α placed base to base. In reality the biprism is constructed from a single plate of glass by suitable grinding and polishing it; the obtuse angle of the prism is only slightly less than 180° and the other angles is of the order of 30’ are equal. … Read more