Diffraction Grating Definition

noun
A plate of glass or polished metal ruled with a series of very close, equidistant, parallel lines, used to produce a spectrum by the diffraction of reflected or transmitted light.
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Noun

Singular:
diffraction grating
Plural:
diffraction gratings

Diffraction Grating Sentence Examples

  • He was also the inventor of the diffraction grating.

  • The railings in fact do for sound what a diffraction grating does for light.

  • The new cavity configuration allowed tuning of the laser continuously over 25 nm of the erbium gain bandwidth by using a bulk diffraction grating.

  • But the tunable diffraction grating could raise it by about 100 percent.

  • Question 5 A student finds an old, unmarked diffraction grating in a cupboard.

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