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A diffraction grating does not disperse light into its component colors. However, a prism does. A diffraction grating simply causes light to diffract and display an interference pattern on a screen.
No diffraction grating is not used in polarization.
In a plane diffraction grating, if the angle of diffraction is such that the minima due to diffraction component in the intensity distribution falls at the same positions of principal maxima due to interference component, then, that order of principal maxima will be missing or absent. For more information, please visit: http://www.theglobaltutors.com/theglobaltutors/Optics-Homework-Help/Spectra-Diffraction-Grating https://msk1986.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/unit-iii-diffraction.pdf
Diffraction is the bending of waves around an obstacle, while interference is the meeting of two waves. For instance, diffraction is what results from a pinhole blocking a wave source, the wave spreads out from that one point. This effect is what creates shadows, regions where the light source is blocked but it is not completely dark. Interference, however, results from two waves colliding with one another undergoing constructive and destructive interference, as in two chords being played. I think the confusion concerning these two different phenomena is the fact that two pinholes, two diffraction sources, results in interference of two sources, which is what the diffraction grating is, which creates the characteristic bands of light and dark interference patterns.
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A diffraction grating does not disperse light into its component colors. However, a prism does. A diffraction grating simply causes light to diffract and display an interference pattern on a screen.
No diffraction grating is not used in polarization.
In a plane diffraction grating, if the angle of diffraction is such that the minima due to diffraction component in the intensity distribution falls at the same positions of principal maxima due to interference component, then, that order of principal maxima will be missing or absent. For more information, please visit: http://www.theglobaltutors.com/theglobaltutors/Optics-Homework-Help/Spectra-Diffraction-Grating https://msk1986.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/unit-iii-diffraction.pdf
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Diffraction is the bending of waves around an obstacle, while interference is the meeting of two waves. For instance, diffraction is what results from a pinhole blocking a wave source, the wave spreads out from that one point. This effect is what creates shadows, regions where the light source is blocked but it is not completely dark. Interference, however, results from two waves colliding with one another undergoing constructive and destructive interference, as in two chords being played. I think the confusion concerning these two different phenomena is the fact that two pinholes, two diffraction sources, results in interference of two sources, which is what the diffraction grating is, which creates the characteristic bands of light and dark interference patterns.
for diffraction grating mercury lamp is used not sodium lamp.
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Diffraction grating could be used as the dispersive element because of the ability of light to be broken according to various wavelength.
If you shone monochromatic light on a diffraction grating it would alternate bright and dark bands. Only white light white light shone through a diffraction grating would produce a band of colors.
Diffraction is the bending of waves around an obstacle, while interference is the meeting of two waves. For instance, diffraction is what results from a pinhole blocking a wave source, the wave spreads out from that one point. This effect is what creates shadows, regions where the light source is blocked but it is not completely dark. Interference, however, results from two waves colliding with one another undergoing constructive and destructive interference, as in two chords being played. I think the confusion concerning these two different phenomena is the fact that two pinholes, two diffraction sources, results in interference of two sources, which is what the diffraction grating is, which creates the characteristic bands of light and dark interference patterns.