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Article #4417Re: Diffraction patterns from irregular slits
From: Blair P. Houghton
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 01:46
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 01:46
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In article <1992Nov8.235607.24940@EE.Stanford.EDU> siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman) writes: > Well, assuming you really have a collection of regular slits, and >they're coherently illuminated (which is more or less implied in your >statement of the problem), you can just _add_ coherently the >diffracted field (not intensity!) patterns of the individual slits. I think Jack Sarfatti is capable of explaining to you why this is very much like the situation with adding-the- wavefunctions-(not-the-probability-densities) for particle/wave slit experiments. --Blair "He can even quote Feynman on it, if he's got that much integrity."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|ichips!hfglobe!chnews!sedona!bhoughto From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Diffraction patterns from irregular slits Date: 9 Nov 1992 01:46:59 GMT Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona Lines: 14 Message-ID: <1dkfujINNfh0@chnews.intel.com> References: <1992Nov8.140902.28735@lut.ac.uk> <1992Nov8.235607.24940@EE.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: alfalfa.intel.com