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A descriptive account of both classical and hologram interferometry shows many common features. In each, the position of fringe localization is found by a similar ray construction and the fringe visibility is derived from the amplitude distribution in a diffraction pattern near focus.
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W. H. Steel (1970) studied this question.
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