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Laser Diffraction Pattern


	This Demonstration considers the diffraction pattern produced by shining a laser beam through a slit. The intensity of the pattern can be computed using a convolution integral that has a closed-form expression in terms of error functions.


	Contributed by: Roger Germundsson and Devendra Kapadia
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Reference: D. W. Kammler, A First Course in Fourier Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Contributed by: Roger Germundsson and Devendra Kapadia

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