Re: Pinhole 9x12cm quest

Richard Knoppow (dickburk@ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:11:42 -0700

At 10:49 AM 10/14/97 -0600, Wayde Allen wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Tom Ferguson wrote:
>
>> I believe that everyone is coming up with very similar equations, simply
>> stated differently.
>
>Yep, that is why I posted the derivation of the equation. There is no one
>correct set of numbers to plug in. It is up to the guy making the pinhole
>to decide what wavelength of light to optimize the pinhole size for.
>
>- Wayde
> (wallen@boulder.nist.gov)
>

Of course, white light is also going to smear out all of those
interference patterns anyway. So probably the pin hole should be made for
somewhere in the middle (green) and forget trying to be too exact.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles,Ca.
dickburk@ix.netcom.com