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First minimum of a finite slit array

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For N equally spaced, coherently illuminated narrow slits at normal incidence, the phasor sum is proportional to sin(Nδ/2)/sin(δ/2), where δ=2πdsinθ/λ. The first zero around the central maximum has dsinθ=λ/N. Principal maxima are removable zero-over-zero limits, not intensity zeros.

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