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In this chapter we treat light as waves to study interference, diffraction, and polarization. This study is known as wave optics or physical optics.
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For historical reasons, it is called diffraction grating, but it would be more correct to call it interference grating because it is somewhat like the double-slit experiment but with huge number of double slits.
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Radi, H.A., Rasmussen, J.O. (2013). Interference, Diffraction and Polarization of Light. In: Principles of Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23026-4_18
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