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Multimedia Diffractionincludes examples of these diffraction effects:
(Please note that these patterns are not simulations, they are photographs of actual patterns recorded in the laboratory.)
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straight edge wire 1 wire 2 wire 3 wire 4 slit 1 slit 2 slit 3 slit 4 slit 5 circular aperture 1 circular aperture 2 circular aperture 3 pencil point sewing pin circular obstacle expanded laser beam |
single slit 1 single slit 2 single slit 3 single slit 4 two slit 1 two slit 2 two slit 3 three slit 1 four slit 1 five slit 1 six slit 1 fifty slit 1 three slit 2 four slit 2 five slit 2 fifty slit 2 |
single slit 1 single slit 2 single slit 3 single slit 4 two slit 1 two slit 2 two slit 3 two slit 4 three slit 1 four slit 1 five slit 1 six slit 1 fifty slit 1 three slit 2 four slit 2 five slit 2 fifty slit 2 circular aperture 1 circular aperture 2 circular aperture 3 two circular apertures 1 two circular apertures 2 three circular apertures four circular apertures five circular apertures six circular apertures fifty circular apertures two multi-slit arrays - no overlap three multi-slit arrays - no overlap two multi-slit arrays - overlapping two orthogonal rows - circ.aps. square lattice - circ.aps. rectangular lattice - circ.aps. hexagonal lattice - circ.aps. single triangular aperture fifty triangular apertures square lattice - triang.aps. rectangular lattice - triang.aps. hexagonal lattice - triang.aps. single S aperture square lattice - S apertures rectangular lattice - S apertures hexagonal lattice - S apertures |
coarse grating, sodium coarse grating, cadmium coarse grating, thallium blazed grating, sodium (section) blazed grating, cadmium (section) blazed grating, mercury (section) blazed grating, cadmium (full) blazed grating, mercury (full) |
starburst 1, white light starburst 2, white light starburst 3, white light starburst 4, white light starburst 5, white light starburst 6, white light starburst 7, white light starburst 8, white light starburst 9, white light Airy pattern, white light two-slit source, well resolved two-slit source, resolved two-slit source, limit of resolution two-slit source, unresolved constellation, well resolved constellation, some images resolved two-slit diffraction 1, white light two-slit diffraction 2, white light ditto, mica over part of one slit |
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