Lightbulb Seen Through Diffraction
by GIPhotoStock
Title
Lightbulb Seen Through Diffraction
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GIPhotoStock
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Lightbulb seen through a diffraction grating. Diffraction grating is an optical element whose properties are periodically modulated in one dimension. Transmissive diffraction gratings consist of many thin lines of either absorptive material or thin grooves (indentations) on an otherwise transparent substrate. Light transmission through a diffraction grating occurs along discrete directions, called diffraction orders. Here an incandescent lightbulb is photographed through a transmissive holographic diffraction grating. The zeroth order does not exhibit diffraction (bright white filament) while the two first orders occur at distinct diffraction angles that a camera lens translates into distinct positions on the sensor. Moreover, different wavelengths (colors) of incident white light diffract slightly differently, leading to the apparent spectral decomposition.
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July 29th, 2014
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