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Optics & Lasers PH201 Tutorial Guide

This document contains 8 practice problems about optics and lasers: 1. Calculate the angle at which red light will emerge in the second order spectrum when white light falls on a transmission grating with 1000 lines per centimeter. 2. Determine the highest order spectrum that can be seen using a grating with 10,000 lines per centimeter when light has a frequency of 4.0 × 1014 Hz. 3. Calculate the total number of lines a grating must have to just separate the sodium doublet lines in the third order. 4. Find the positions of the first and second minima and maxima in the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern from a slit when light has a

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Optics & Lasers PH201 Tutorial Guide

This document contains 8 practice problems about optics and lasers: 1. Calculate the angle at which red light will emerge in the second order spectrum when white light falls on a transmission grating with 1000 lines per centimeter. 2. Determine the highest order spectrum that can be seen using a grating with 10,000 lines per centimeter when light has a frequency of 4.0 × 1014 Hz. 3. Calculate the total number of lines a grating must have to just separate the sodium doublet lines in the third order. 4. Find the positions of the first and second minima and maxima in the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern from a slit when light has a

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OPTICS & LASERS (PH201)

TUTORIAL
Feb. 11, 2018
1. White light falls normally on a transmission grating that contains 1000 lines per
centimetre. At what angle will red light (λ0 = 650 nm) emerge in the second order
spectrum?

2. Light having a frequency of 4.0 × 1014 Hz is incident on a grating formed with


10,000 lines per centimetre. What is the highest order spectrum that can be seen
with this device?

3. What is the total number of lines a grating must have in order just to separate the
sodium doublet (λ1 = 5896 Å, λ2 = 5890 Å) in the third order?

4. Consider a plane wave incident normally on a long narrow slit of width 0.02 cm.
The Fraunhofer diffraction pattern is observed on the focal plane of a lens whose
focal length is 20 cm. Assuming λ = 6000 Å determine the positions of the first
and second minima. Also determine the positions of the first and second
maxima.

5. Consider a diffraction grating with 8000 lines per inch and assume that light of
wavelength 5460 Å and 5460.072 Å illuminates the grating over a region of 2
inch.
a. Calculate the number of orders in the diffracted spectrum.
b. Calculate the dispersion in the third order.
c. In which diffraction orders will the two wavelength components be
resolved?
6. Consider a plane wave of wavelength 6 × 10–5 cm incident normally on a circular
aperture of radius 0.01 cm. Calculate the positions of the brightest and the
darkest points on the axis.

7. The output of a He-Ne laser (λ = 6328 Å) can be assumed to be Gaussian with


plane phase front. For w0 = 1 mm and w0 = 0.2 mm, calculate the beam diameter
at z = 20 m. [Ans. 2ω = 0.83 cm & 4.0 cm]

8. A Gaussian beam is coming out of a laser. Assume λ = 6000 Å and that at z = 0,


the beam width is 1 mm and the phase front is plane. After traversing 10 m
through vacuum, what will be (a) the beam width and (b) the radius of curvature
of the phase front? [Ans. 2ω = 0.77 cm; R(z) = 1017 cm]

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