List of types of interferometers

• Air-wedge shearing interferometer
• Astronomical interferometer / Michelson stellar interferometer
• Classical interference microscopy
• Common path - Bath
• Cyclic interferometer
• Diffraction-grating interferometer
• Double-slit interferometer
• Dual-polarization interferometry
• Fabry–Pérot interferometer
• Fizeau interferometer
• Fourier-transform interferometer
• Fresnel interferometer
• Fringes of Equal Chromatic Order interferometer
• Gabor hologram
• Gires–Tournois etalon
• Heterodyne interferometer
• Holographic interferometer
• Jamin interferometer
• Laser Doppler vibrometer
• Linnik interferometer
• LUPI variant of Michelson
• Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer
• Mach–Zehnder interferometer
• Martin–Puplett interferometer
• Michelson interferometer
• Mirau interferometer
• Moiré interferometer
• Multi-beam interferometer
• Near-field interferometer
• Newton interferometer
• Nomarski interferometer
• Nonlinear Michelson interferometer / Step-phase Michelson interferometer
• N-slit interferometer
• Phase-shifting interferometer
• Planar lightwave circuit interferometer
• Photon Doppler velocimeter interferometer
• Polarization interferometer
• Point diffraction interferometer
• Rayleigh interferometer
• Sagnac interferometer
• Schlieren interferometer
• Shearing interferometer
• Twyman–Green interferometer
• Talbot–Lau interferometer
• Watson interferometer
• White-light interferometer
• White-light scatterplate interferometer
• Young's double-slit interferometer
• Zernike phase-contrast microscopy

  Intensity and nonlinear interferometers

• intensity interferometer
• intensity optical correlator
• frequency-resolved optical gating
• Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction

  Quantum optics interferometers

• Hong–Ou–Mandel interferometer
• Franson interferometer
• Hanbury–Brown Twiss interferometer
• Polariton Interferometer

  Interferometers outside optics

• Acoustic interferometer
• Atom interferometer
• Neutron interferometer
• Ramsey interferometer
• Mini grail interferometer
• Aharonov–Bohm effect
• Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar
• Superconducting quantum interference devices
• White–Juday warp-field interferometer