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Instead of heavy lenses for focusing, one option is to place a tiny diffraction grating called a planar Fourier capture array over the light sensor to break the incoming light into wavelengths that can be reconstructed later by a computer to any focal depth.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
Through an electron microscope, Parker saw that Wiwaxia had a diffraction grating on its body, meaning a nanostructure composed of a series of parallel grooves that split wavelengths of light into colored rays, like the bottom of a CD.
—Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
The arrangement splits and diffracts light into several beams in different directions in an optical concept known as diffraction grating.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
The basic idea is to pass the light through a diffraction grating—a bunch of very tiny parallel slits.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 8 Oct. 2021
The beam was split because of the glass slide, a diffraction grating with thousands of tiny slits etched into it.
—Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2021
The colors are from the chocolate (not any ingredient or coating) diffracting light after being forcefully molded onto a diffraction grating in vacuum.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2020
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First Known Use
1857, in the meaning defined above
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“Diffraction grating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diffraction%20grating. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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diffraction grating
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diffraction grating
noun
: grating
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