Improvements of Traditional Laser Fraunhofer Diffraction Experiment Using Digital Image Processing Method

• Published in: 东华大学学报（英文版） Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 406 - 410
• Main Authors: JIN Yuanwei, WANG Yabing, ZHAO Bin, YI Zhaoguang, XU Shenghui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211167, China%School of Mathematics and Statistics, Institute of Space Weather, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China 31.10.2020
• Subjects: digital image processing method; width of single slit; traditional laser Fraunhofer diffraction experiment
• ISSN: 1672-5220
• DOI: 10.19884/j.1672-5220.202007049

O439; We present an improved digital image processing ( DIP ) method to calculate the widths of single slits. Different from the traditional laser Fraunhofer diffraction experiment in college physical experiments, by performing fast Fourier transform, inverse fast Fourier transform and the nonlinear leastsquare fitting on the diffraction pattern taken by a camera, the DIP method can quickly return an analytic expression, whose period is used to calculate widths of single slits. By comparing the measured results by the DIP method and the successional difference ( SD ) method, we find that for a single slit whose width is 60372 μm, the DIP method is more accurate. Experimental results show that for single slits with widths between 40μm and 160μm, the relative error of the DIP method is less than 2. 78％. Also, the DIP method can be used to measure the diameter of filament and fibres online in real time.