11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Making More Diffraction Orders by Shrinking Wavelengths

15 Dec 2022, 12:15
15m
Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R4

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Education AIP: Education

Speaker

Dr Margaret Wegener (School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland)

Description

The change of wavelength of light with the medium it’s travelling through can be demonstrated by immersing a simple diffraction experiment in water. Higher orders of diffraction can occur in water compared to in air.

Primary author

Dr Margaret Wegener (School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland)

Co-authors

Dr Stephen Hughes (UQ College, The University of Queensland) Som Gurung (Paro College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan)

Presentation materials