Solution

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Immediately after a uniformly illuminated hard slit, the normalized transmitted state is for , zero elsewhere. With Fourier convention ,
The supplied sinc integral verifies unit normalization. The first zeros occur at , but this finite central-lobe width is not the rms uncertainty: fails to have a convergent integral.

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