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Playing with laser pointer - diffraction grating

If you fire a laser pointer (held in my hand in the foreground) at a steel ruler, at a very low angle, then the laser will 'see' the tiny grooves in the ruler as a very fine grating and you'll get diffraction.

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Uploaded on May 8, 2011
Taken on May 8, 2011