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For the centred screen, m. Retaining the screen-angle geometry givesThere are about carrier orders on each side. With equal spectral intensities, direct extrema of the intensity formula giveTheir contrast declines toward the edges: the first equal-intensity visibility zero occurs at , just beyond the screen's limit. Edge visibility is only about , so fewer fringes may be discernible at a practical contrast threshold.
The screen reaches , where a paraxial conversion of its full width is inaccurate. Also, wavelength-independent detector sensitivity does not itself establish equal source intensities. The boxed count specifies the usual equal-intensity idealization; without spectral weights and a visibility threshold, a unique experimental count is not fixed.
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