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How will Newton's rings look using a Concave-convex lens?
I want to examine lenses that are concave-convex (one for each side) using the Newton's rings method.
I'm trying to build the theoretical model for this, but I'm quite sure that the rays of light will ...
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How is light interference explained with photons?
In the classical model of light as an EM wave, interference is a trivial consequence of the linearity of the wave equation. Now, if we model light as collections of photons, how is light interference ...
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Interference pattern due to a thin prism and a lens
We have a setup like this where a converging lens placed between inclined face of thin glass wedge and a screen. The screen is parallel to the inclined face of the wedge and the optical axis of the ...
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What determines how much power goes into each diffraction order?
Imagine a grating with infinite number of slits, and the spacing D between slits is larger than the wavelength so that there are high order diffractions. In each of the diffraction directions the ...
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Confused about the principle Of Michelson Interferometer
Consider the figure that I found from an answer here:
Michelson interferometer circular fringes
Now the path difference in the image in clearly
$$\Delta d= 2d cos\theta$$
and I know a phase ...
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Why does collimated light form an airy disk pattern on a camera sensor?
I'm using a Raspberry Pi camera v2.1 (lens removed) to make some observations on a laser. I have the laser coupled into a single-mode fiber which outputs a smooth gaussian spread onto the camera. From ...
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Focusing lens placed after double slit experiment
How would the expression for the intensity distribution produced by a double slit on a screen change if a focusing lens of focal length $f$ were placed a distance $f$ in front of the screen?
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Number of fringes obtained on interference of light of different wavelengths [closed]
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I am stuck at the part where we obtain general equation for path difference of two interfering lights. Since wavelength of those interfering lights are different, so I ...
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Jamin interferometer's interference pattern
I'm working with a Jamin interferometer, and I'm interested in calculating the intensity pattern I would observe in a far away plane. The scheme is as follows:
Spherical light enters through the ...
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Double slit experiment with polychromatic light
When double slit experiment is carried with white light , the resulting pattern on the screen is predicted by assuming white light as combination of light of different colors. Then it is assumed that ...
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Double slit with off centre source, where does phase difference occur?
I am currently working through the following problem for my optics class. The setup as shown below is composed of a double slit sandwiched between two convergent lenses L1 and L2. A point source is ...
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Circular fringes in Michelson interferometer
The rays reflected by mirrors M1 and M2 meet at the glass G. For each ray(specifically 1 and 2 in the figure which may go on 1,2,3... for an extended object as is required for the experiment) as the ...
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Impact of obstacles on Single/ Double split interference pattern
What is the impact of obstacles on the interference pattern if the obstacles are arranged to be located in the destructive interference locations as follow:
According to my understanding to classical ...
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Question on Babinet's principle example
Say we have the following mask (I drew it myself on paint):
I asked myself if it is possible to know the form of the image generated on a screen after the mask or know the electric field generated ...
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Fresnel biprism little concepts
For a Fresnel biprism can anyone please tell how to prove that the distance between the virtual image sources formed is 2a(n-1)α . I can't find any resource where can I understand the derivation. Most ...
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