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In thin-film interference, what does phase difference actually mean?

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In thin-film interference, what does phase difference actually mean?

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Actually is strictly a pathlength difference rather than a phase difference, although often you will hear pathlength differences (sloppily) referred to as “phase shifts”, because the relation between pathlength difference and phase shift is simple:

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