Fraunhofer Diffraction Pattern Produced by a Slit of Varying Width and Its Application to High Speed Cameras,

Abstract

A theoretical and experimental investigation is made of the diffraction pattern produced by a slit, whose aperture varies uniformly from a constant value A to zero. The results of this investigation are applied to a proposed high speed camera. It is shown that diffraction effects are very serious and cannot be neglected. It seems, unless the suggested design of this high speed camera is changed, the camera will be of little use for accurate measurements, and photographs will show too much blur to give details.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1947
Accession Number
ADA321404

Entities

People

  • F. E. Geiger

Organizations

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Camera Lenses
  • Cameras
  • Diffraction
  • Energy
  • Experimental Data
  • Focal Planes
  • High Speed Cameras
  • Images
  • Intensity
  • Lepidoptera
  • Light Sources
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Time Intervals
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.