Diffraction

Diffraction is spooky, phenomenological, and in general not well understood.

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Diffraction is the ability of waves to ‘bend’ around corners and spread after passing through an aperture.

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Diffraction occurs when light is allowed to pass through the spaces in an object, much like the way in which water waves pass through the spaces in between reeds.

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But due to the Diffraction spikes it doesn't match either telescope profile.

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Diffraction may be broadly defined as the tendency of a wave traveling in two or more dimensions to spread out as it propagates.

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Diffraction is bad-enough on ONE lens in many cases.

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Diffraction patterns like those seen by Davisson and Germer and Thomson are an unmistakable signature of wave behavior, as Thomas Young showed in 1799, so their experiments provided proof that de Broglie was right, and electrons have wave nature.

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Diffraction effects are still present even at larger aperture sizes, but they become insignificant compared to the overall geometric behavior.

Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars 2007

Diffraction grating The laser is split into seven beams; each one reads a separate track

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In the three weeks since its launch over 2000 stitches have already been contributed to what will be ' The World's Largest Diffraction Pattern' - a 3m x 3m squared piece of textile embroidery depicting an important new diffraction pattern discovered by Scientists from Evotec working at Diamond Light Source.

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