Diffraction

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4956.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4956. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation And Observational Techniques, Astronomical Instrumentation

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The bending and spreading out of waves (for example light waves or water waves) that occurs when they pass by the edge of an opaque object or through a narrow slit or aperture. Light waves from a distant point-like source advance as a series of wavefronts (`crests' and `troughs') that lie at right angles to the direction in which the light is propagating (like ocean waves rolling up onto a beach)...

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