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Classification of Diffraction

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The bending of light at the edge of an obstacle and hence its encroachment into the region of geometrical shadow is known as “diffractionof light”.Classification of diffraction phenomena: ... They are (1) Fresnel class ofdiffractionand (2) Fraunhofer class ofdiffraction.

We can define two distincttypes of diffraction: (a) Fresneldiffractionis produced when light from a point source meets an obstacle, the waves are spherical and the pattern observed is a fringed image of the object. (b) Fraunhoferdiffractionoccurs with plane wave-fronts with the object effectively at infinity.



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