“…Specifically, we noted that the interferometer sees the displacement fields of the splitter's and analyser's inner sides. This result and, in turn, the prediction that opposite bending will result in the observation of opposite (compressive or tensile) strains opened the way to an experimental investigation by the phase-contrast imaging of crystal interferometers (Bonse & Hart, 1966;Bonse et al, 1976;Ohler et al, 1999;Bergamin et al, 2000;Fodchuk & Raransky, 2003;Massa et al, 2009Massa et al, , 2020aDrmeyan et al, 2013Drmeyan et al, , 2017, which is the subject of this paper.…”