0 past simple and past participle of diffract
1 to break up light or sound waves by making them go through a narrow space or across an edge
It also provides focusing in the sagittal plane in a position at the center of the diffracted spectrum to maximize the collected flux.
The solutions in these zones provide the matching with the reflected field and the diffracted field radiated by the creeping ray.
The beam illuminates the first grating and is then diffracted.
At low jet velocities there is little effect on the amplitude of the diffracted pulse.
Those rays produce an infinite set of diffracted rays that obey the usual geometrical optics equations.
That completes the definition of the diffracted director cosine.
Diffracted fields also assist in the extraction of the surface current electrons into the vacuum.
As the first approximation, the spectrum was assumed to be diffracted in the first-order only.
