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The 58 pages that link to Diffraction, each with the reason it gives.

• WavelengthRelated: Its patterns depend on wavelength relative to obstacle and aperture sizes.

• TelescopeRelated: Diffraction places a fundamental limit on the detail a telescope can resolve.

• Camera obscuraRelated: Very small apertures blur projections through diffraction, limiting how far a pinhole can improve sharpness.

• OpticsRelated: It limits image detail and reveals light's wave behavior.

• SineRelated: Sine functions describe wave phases used to calculate diffraction patterns.

• PhotolithographyRelated: Diffraction blurs mask patterns as light is projected onto resist.

• Mie scatteringRelated: Forward scattering by large particles includes a strong diffraction contribution.

• ApertureRelated: At very small apertures, diffraction softens fine image detail.

• Point spread functionRelated: Even a perfect finite-aperture optical system produces a diffraction-broadened PSF.

• Radio propagationRelated: Diffraction lets radio signals reach regions shadowed by buildings, hills, or other obstacles.

• Huygens–Fresnel principleRelated: Interference among secondary waves accounts for diffraction patterns and spreading.

• WavefrontRelated: It changes wavefront shape beyond obstacles and openings.

• Augustin-Jean FresnelRelated: Fresnel developed mathematical methods for predicting diffraction patterns.

• Confocal microscopyRelated: Diffraction shapes the focal spot and limits the detail confocal microscopy can resolve.

• Stealth technologyRelated: Edges and gaps can scatter radar energy, complicating attempts to suppress reflections.

• Double-slit experimentRelated: Each narrow slit spreads the incoming wave before the two contributions overlap.

• Atmospheric opticsRelated: It helps explain corona rings around the Sun or Moon caused by small droplets.

• Multipath propagationRelated: Diffraction can deliver signal energy beyond obstacles along additional paths.

• Newtonian telescopeRelated: It sets a fundamental resolution limit even for a perfectly made primary mirror.

• Parabolic reflectorRelated: Wave diffraction limits the spot size even when the reflector has perfect geometry.

• LabradoriteRelated: Light scattering by internal structures is commonly described in terms of diffraction.

• Siméon Denis PoissonRelated: The debate over Poisson’s spot helped establish wave diffraction as a testable phenomenon.

• Gaussian beamRelated: A finite Gaussian profile necessarily spreads as it propagates.

• OpticksRelated: Newton observed color effects near edges, but diffraction later challenged simple ray-based accounts.

• Airy functionRelated: Airy functions appear in diffraction integrals near smooth boundaries and caustics.

• Dennis GaborRelated: Illuminating a hologram diffracts light to reconstruct the recorded wavefront.

• Frits ZernikeRelated: Light diffracted by specimen details carries the phase information used to form contrast.