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Sohl, Applied Optics Homework: Chapters 11 & 13, Pedrotti3

The width of a rectangular slit is measured in the laboratory by means of its diffraction
Collimated
pattern at a distance of 2 m from the slit. When illuminated normally with a parallel
beam oflaser light (632.8 nm), the distance between the third minima on either side of
Slit W =$
the principal maximum is measured. An average of several tries gives 5.625 cm.
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a. Assuming Fraunhofer diffraction, what is the slit width?
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b. Is the assumption offar-field diffraction justified in this case? What is the ratio
L>Lmin?
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11-7 a. Find the values of pfor which the fourth and fifth secondary maxim of the single-slit diffraction pattern occur. (See
the discussion surrounding Figure 11-3.)
b. Find the ratio of the irradiance of the maxima of part (a) to the irradiance at the central maxinrum of the single slit
diffraction pattern.
Figure 11-3 Intersections of the curves y p and y = tan pdetennine
the angles pat which the sinc function is a maximum.
a. This plot was created using Excel. The intersections occur at values
that don't agree well with the values given in the text. My values are all
too low. Hummm????
Sinc function solutions
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Beta (i/pl)
Sinc function solutions
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So I used the first derivative test for extrema and
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found that maxima occur when sinc = cos
which I have plotted to the right, again with Excel.
Now the data points agree with the textbook. Here
are the values that I get for maxima for the sinc
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function:
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= l.430 X, 2.459 x, 3.471 x, 4.477 x, 5.482 rr
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11-9 The Lick Observatory has one of the largest refracting telescopes, with an aperture diameter of 36 in. and a focal length of 56
ft. Determine the radii of the first and second bright rings surrounding the Airy disc in the diffraction pattern formed by a star
on the focal plane of the objective. The first two secondary maxima of the function [J!(y)/yf occur at y = 5.14 and y = 8.42.
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11-11 Suppose that a CO
2
gas laser emits a diffraction-limited beam at wavelength 10.6 Iffi1, power 2 kW, and diameter I mm.
Assume that, by multimoding, the laser beam has an essentially unifonn irradiance over its cross section. Approximately how
large a spot would be produced on the surface of the moon, a distance of 376,000 km away from such a device, neglecting any
scattering by the earth's atmosphere? What will be the irradiance at the lunar surface?
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11-13 Two headlights on an automobile are 45 in. apart. How far away will the lights appear to be if they are just resolvable to a
person whose nocturnal pupils are just 5 mm in diameter? Assume an average wavelength of 550 nm.
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Each slit has a width of 0.100 mm. The pattern reveals that the fourth-order interfer
ence maxima are missing from the pattern.
(a) What is the slit separation?
(b) What is the irradiance of the first three orders of interference fringes, relative to
the zeroth-order maximum?
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11-18 Calculate by integration the irradiance of the diffraction pattern produced by a three-slit aperture, where the slit separation a is
three times the slit width b. Make a careful sketch of I versus sin () and describe properties of the pattern. Also show that your
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results are consistent with the general result for N slits, given by Eq. (11-32).
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11-23 What is the angular half-width (from central maximum to first minimum) of a diffracted beam for a slit width of (a) A; (b) SA;
(c) lOA?
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13-1 A I-mm-diameter hole is illuminated by plane waves of 546-nm light. According to the usual criterion, which teclmiques
(near-field or far-field) may be applied to the diffraction problem when the detector is at 50 em, 1 m, and 5 m from the
aperture?
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