Includes appendices, bibliography and index

1. Interferometry: its development
2. Two-beam interferences
3. Coherence
4. Multiple-beam interference
5. Lasers
6. Electronic phase measurements
7. Measurements of length
8. Optical testing
9. Interference microscopy
10. Interference spectroscopy
11. Fourier-transformation spectroscopy
12. Interfermetric sensors
13. Nonlinear interferometers
14. Stellar interferometry
15. Space-time and gravitation
16. Single-photon interference
17. Fourth-order interference
18. Two-photon interferometry
19. Two-dimensional linear systems
20. The Fresnel-Kirchhoff integral
21. The jones calculus
22. The Pancharatnam phase
23. holography