{"id":8595,"date":"2022-06-16T06:24:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T06:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.szlaser.com\/?page_id=8595"},"modified":"2022-06-16T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:58:04","slug":"diffraction-grating-playground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.szlaser.com\/index.php\/wiki\/diffraction-grating-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Diffraction Grating Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.84%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.3;\">Diffraction Grating Simulation<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:18px;--awb-line-height:1.72em;--awb-letter-spacing:var(--awb-typography4-letter-spacing);--awb-text-transform:var(--awb-typography4-text-transform);--awb-text-color:#19052e;--awb-margin-top:20px;--awb-margin-right:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-margin-left:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;Cardo&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ophysics.com\/l5b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ophysics.com\/l5b.html<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a simulation of a typical laser diffraction lab set up. Examine the set up in the 3D window, it shows a laser, a diffraction grating, and a screen. Use the checkbox to place the grating in front of the laser, and look at the pattern of dots that appear on the screen. Use the sliders to change the distance from the grating to the screen, the number of lines per millimeter in the diffraction grating, and the wavelength of the laser. Use the diagram of the screen in the top window to analyze the numerical positions of the dots on the screen using diffraction equations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.84%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.3;\">Multiple Slit Diffraction Pattern<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:18px;--awb-line-height:1.72em;--awb-letter-spacing:var(--awb-typography4-letter-spacing);--awb-text-transform:var(--awb-typography4-text-transform);--awb-text-color:#19052e;--awb-margin-top:20px;--awb-margin-right:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-margin-left:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;Cardo&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MultipleSlitDiffractionPattern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MultipleSlitDiffractionPattern\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this Demonstration we visualize the diffraction pattern of\u00a0<span class=\"InlineFormula\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MultipleSlitDiffractionPattern\/img\/desc82616708308991493.png\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/span>\u00a0equally spaced slits of equal width, also known as a\u00a0<em>diffraction grating<\/em>. It can be shown that the diffraction pattern is equivalent to the diffraction pattern for\u00a0<span class=\"InlineFormula\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MultipleSlitDiffractionPattern\/img\/desc82616708308991493.png\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/span>\u00a0delta function slits modulated by the diffraction pattern of a single slit of finite width. The latter thus acts as an envelope, shown by the thick dashed line. Special cases of this system include the single (<span class=\"InlineFormula\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MultipleSlitDiffractionPattern\/img\/desc1969309471409298124.png\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/span>) and double (<span class=\"InlineFormula\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MultipleSlitDiffractionPattern\/img\/desc8699666876538824724.png\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/span>) slits, which appear in introductory physics courses. The horizontal scale is arbitrary and the vertical scale normalized to the peak intensity.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8230,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.7 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diffraction Grating Playground - SZLASER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.szlaser.com\/index.php\/wiki\/diffraction-grating-playground\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diffraction Grating Playground\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.szlaser.com\/index.php\/wiki\/diffraction-grating-playground\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SZLASER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-16T12:58:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MultipleSlitDiffractionPattern\/img\/desc82616708308991493.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.szlaser.com\/index.php\/wiki\/diffraction-grating-playground\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.szlaser.com\/index.php\/wiki\/diffraction-grating-playground\/\",\"name\":\"Diffraction Grating Playground - 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