Which optical outcome reduces fringe visibility due to imperfect path matching?

💡 Explanation

With mismatched arms, path length differences exceed the source coherence length where destructive and constructive interference blurs fringes. The mechanism here is temporal coherence, because interference depends on a sufficient overlap, therefore arm mismatch reduces visibility, rather than enhancing interference as in thin films.

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