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The Template_2Slit_Diff Instrument

An example instrument showing a Young's double slit experiment

Identification

• Site: Templates
• Author: Erik B Knudsen (erkn@fysik.dtu.dk)
• Origin: DTU Physics
• Date: Jan 2014

Description

A template instrument that shows double slit diffraction.
Two identical slits are positioned 1m downstream from a point source, The slit
width and their separation may be varied. The slit height is set to .8e-6 m.

Examples

(Test cases in bold)

• Test: SLITW=1e-6 SLITSEP=4e-6 Detector: psd0_I=7.1e-14

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
SLITW	m	Width of the slit in question.	1e-6
SLITSEP	m	Double slit separation.	4e-6

Links

• Source code for Template_2Slit_Diff.instr.

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