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Thin-film phonon interferences can be used to build fast phonon spectrometers. The analogy and the differences to thin-film photon interferometry and to Fourier spectroscopy are worked out and related experiments with photons are described. Multiplebeam interferograms are observed in growing cryogenic films using coherent 24-GHz phonons.
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zur Nieden, T., Weis, O. Thin-film phonon interferometry. Z Physik B 21, 11–20 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01315069
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