• Kirchhoff's diffraction formula (also called Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction formula) approximates light intensity and phase in optical diffraction: light...
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  • Fraunhofer diffraction equation is used to model the diffraction of waves when plane waves are incident on a diffracting object, and the diffraction pattern...
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  • optical components encountered. Kirchhoff's diffraction formula provides a rigorous mathematical foundation for diffraction, based on the wave equation....
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  • integrating these currents using physical optics (PO), by the Kirchhoff's diffraction formula. The current J → {\displaystyle {\vec {J}}} on a perfect electrical...
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  • Kirchhoff's integral theorem (sometimes referred to as the Fresnel–Kirchhoff integral theorem) is a surface integral to obtain the value of the solution...
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  • Fraunhofer diffraction equation is used to model the diffraction of waves when the diffraction pattern is viewed at a long distance from the diffracting object...
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    directions (i.e., different diffraction angles). The emerging coloration is a form of structural coloration. The directions or diffraction angles of these beams...
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    typical values in matter wave#Applications of matter waves), Kirchhoff's diffraction formula applies. The essential character of this approach is to use...
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  • equation Kepler's equation Kepler's laws of planetary motion Kirchhoff's diffraction formula Klein–Gordon equation Korteweg–de Vries equation Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert...
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  • properties with results of light wave optics. In particular, Kirchhoff's diffraction formula works well for electron optics and for atomic optics. The approximation...
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    is known for the Maggie-Rubinowicz representation of Gustav Kirchhoff’s diffraction formula. He was born in Sadagóra, Bukovina, in the Austro-Hungarian...
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    from the other set. This explains how Kirchhoff's diffraction formula predicts a wave phenomenon – diffraction – using only geometrical ray tracing.: 745 ...
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  • mathematical expression of the Huygens principle, and leads to Kirchhoff's diffraction formula and other approximations. Green's identities hold on a Riemannian...
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    (Geometrical factors, taken into detailed account by Kirchhoff, have been ignored in the foregoing). Thus Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation can be stated: For...
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    (Geometrical factors, taken into detailed account by Kirchhoff, have been ignored in the foregoing.) Thus Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation can be stated: For...
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    detector and sample the approximation of Kirchhoff's diffraction formula for the near field, the Fresnel diffraction equation is valid. In contrast to crystal...
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  • the Huygens–Fresnel principle or Kirchhoff's diffraction formula. Beam expander Dirac's notation Fraunhofer diffraction (mathematics) Free-space optical...
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  • in optics, including geometric optics, physical optics, radiometry, diffraction, and interferometry. There are different forms of the Poynting vector...
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    Talbot effect (category Diffraction)
    Talbot effect is a diffraction effect first observed in 1836 by Henry Fox Talbot. When a plane wave is incident upon a periodic diffraction grating, the image...
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    closely spacing thousands of slits to form a diffraction grating. The interference achieved by a diffraction grating both improves the spectral resolution...
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    discovered the principles of diffraction grating and American astronomer David Rittenhouse made the first engineered diffraction grating. In 1821 Joseph von...
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    Spectroscopy (category Gustav Kirchhoff)
    spectrum, then the light goes through the sample to a dispersion array (diffraction grating instrument) and captured by a photodiode. For astronomical purposes...
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  • uniform theory of diffraction approximates near field electromagnetic fields as quasi optical and uses ray diffraction to determine diffraction coefficients...
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    X-Ray Diffraction [Review]". Physics Today. 10 (3): 50. doi:10.1063/1.3060306. ISSN 0031-9228. Hirsch, P. B. (1957). "Elements of X-Ray Diffraction [Review]"...
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    in circular pipelines Dynamics of floating bodies Angular resolution Diffraction from helical objects, including DNA Probability density function of product...
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    nitrogen trifluoride oxide is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula F3NO. It has strong fluorinating powers. Trifluoramine oxide was first...
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    structure. Furthermore, PCs function by diffracting light. In contrast, metamaterial does not use diffraction. PCs have periodic inclusions that inhibit...
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    continuous surfaces (lens curvature) and/or discontinuous surfaces (diffractive optics). Light rays undergo refraction at the surfaces of each element...
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    elasticity (including an extension of Kirchhoff's formula for elastic vibrations). He also dealt with diffraction problems and Maxwell's theory of electrodynamics...
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