Abstract
It was first predicted by Zernike in a classic paper that the fringes formed in Young's interference experiment reveal some of the spatial coherence properties of the light incident on the two pinholes. More recently it was found that the interference fringes also provide information about the spectral coherence properties of the incident light, because its degree of spatial coherence affects the spectrum of the light in the fringe pattern. The present paper is concerned with elucidating the spectral changes which take place in such superposition experiments, when the light incident on the two small apertures has appreciable bandwidth.
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