4) Find the minimum angular separation resolvable with 633-nm laser light passing through a circular aperture of diameter 2.1 cm.
4) Find the minimum angular separation resolvable with 633-nm laser light passing through a circular aperture of diameter 2.1 cm.
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Concept and Principle:
- There is a fundamental restriction on imaging distant or small objects. This is known as the diffraction limit.
- When we have a circular aperture the minimum angular separation that can be resolved is given by,
Here θmin is the minimum angular separation, λ is the wavelength, and D is the aperture. This condition is known as the Rayleigh criterion.
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