Interference and Diffraction: Gratings

• Diffraction essentially describes a departure from theoretical geometric optics

• Thus a sharp objet casts an alternating shadow of light and dark “patterns” because of interference

• Diffraction is the component that limits resolution

Shapiro p 83

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Interference and Diffreaction:

Gratings

This slide should be a review of diffraction. Basic principles of gratings are reviewed.