SANJAY SUGUNAN

200867

PHY224A LAB: EXPERIMENT #5

1. Fraunhofer diffraction with a double slit.

AIM:
MEASURE FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION WITH A DOUBLE SLIT. USING THE POSITIONS OF DIFFERENT
MAXIMA/MINIMA OF THE DIFFRACTION PATTERN, ESTIMATE THE SIZE OF THE INDIVIDUAL SLITS AND ALSO THE
SEPERATION BETWEEN THE SLITS.

MATERIALS REQUIRED:
GREEN LASER POINTER, SMARTPHONE WITH CAMERA, IMAGEJ SOFTWARE, OBJECTS TO ALIGN HEIGHT, BLADES,
COPPER COIL,WHITE SCREEN, CARDBOARD, CLAY.

THEORY:
PROCEDURE:
• MAKE A DOUBLE SLIT USING USING TWO BLADES AND A WIRE.
• SET THE WHITE SCREEN AND ALLIGN GREEN POINT LASER WITH DISTANCE OF 1M.
• ALLIGN AND PLACE DOUBLE SLIT IN FRONT OF THE GREEN POINT LASER.
• RECORD THE FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION PATTERN OF THE DOUBLE SLIT BY A CAMERA.
• UPLOAD AND ANALYSE THE IMAGE OF DIFFRACTION PATTERN IN IMAGEJ SOFTWARE.
• ANALYSE THE EXTRACTED GRAPH AND FIND SIZE OF THE INDIVIDUAL SLITS AND ALSO THE SEPERATION
BETWEEN THE SLITS USING THE POSITION OF DIFFERRENT MAXIMA/MINIMA OF THE DIFFRACTION
PATTERN.
SETUP:

RECORDED DATA:
RESULT:
SIZE OF INDIVIDUAL SLIT=100MICRONS.

SEPERATION BETWEEN SLITS=50MICRONS.

ERROR ANALYSIS AND PRECAUTIONS:

• THE EXPERIMENT SHOULD BE PERFORMED IN SUITABLE CONDITIONS.
• THE BATTERY USED IN LASER DECAY DRASTICALLY, SO PERFORM EXPERIMENTS ACCORDINGLY.
 2.Speckle pattern using laser and an object.
AIM:
DEMONSTRATE THE FORMATION OF SPECKLE PATTERNS USING A LASER AND AN OBJECT. DESCRIBE WHAT OBJECT
YOU USED IN ORDER TO PRODUCE THE PATTERN. RECORD THE SPECKLE PATTERN.

MATERIALS REQUIRED:
GREEN POINT LASER, RAW PHOTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE, GLASS SLAB, WHITE PAPER, COAL POWDER, SOAP POWER,
HANDMADE MOMENTO WITH PATTERNS, OBJECTS TO ALIGN HEIGHT.

THEORY:

PROCEDURE:
• ALIGN THE LASER AND PROJECT THE LASER TO A WHITE SCREEN.
• SPACE THE SCREEN AND LASER SUCH THE SPECKLE PATTERN WOULD BE MAGNIFIED AND VISIBLE.
• SPREAD SUBSTANCE IN THE GLASS SLAB FOR THE EXPERIMENT.
• PLACE THE GLASS SLAB IN FRONT OF THE GREEN POINT LASER.
• OBSERVE THE SPECKLE PATTERN IN THE WHITE SCREEN.
• RECORD THE SPECKLE PATTERN WITH A RAW PHOTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE.
OBJECT USED:

COAL POWDER(75-150uM)

SOAP POWDER (150-200uM)

EDGE OF A MOMENTO WITH MICRO PATTERNS

RECORDED DATA:
COAL POWDER PARTICLES

SOAP POWDER PARTICLES

EDGE OF MOMENTO
ERROR ANALYSIS AND PRECAUTIONS:
• ENSURE REQUIRED DISTANCE FROM THE WHITE SCREEN SO THAT SPECKLE PATTERN CAN BE SEEN.
• CAPTURE THE PHOTO WITHOUT SHAKING.
• MAKE SURE THE GLASS SLAB IS CLEAN BEFORE SPREADING THE PARTICLES.