- Fringes, which are created by the diffraction or interference of radiation with a quantifiable wavelength, are regions of contrastive brightness or blackness.
- Depending on whether two light beams are in phase or out of phase, interference fringes can be brilliant or dark.
- Different-shaped interference fringes When two mirrors are parallel to one another, as they are when the observation point is on a line perpendicular to the line connecting the two sources of light:
3.1. Produces circular fringes, and
3.2. Produces straight or conic fringes when the mirrors are tilted at an angle.
As a result of the interference phenomena, a screen positioned on the opposite side records a pattern of alternating bright and dark bands known as fringes.