For a uniformly illuminated single slit of width w, the far-fieldamplitude is proportional to sinu/u, with u=πwsinϑ/λ. Its first zeros occur at sinϑ=±λ/w. If the quoted peak width is the full width between those zeros, the small-anglegeometry gives
The Fraunhofer diffractionapproximation is appropriate since w2/(λL)≪1. If the supplied width instead meant a half-width or full width at half maximum, its numerical conversion factor would differ; the displayed answer states the first-zero convention explicitly.