VIT University, Vellore Campus PHY 1701 (Engineering Physics) Lab Manual and Record

Date:20-04-2021 Reg. No.20BIT0054

MONOCHROMATORS IN SOPHISTICATED INSTRUMENT

Apparatus Available:

• Laser Source
• Grating
• Scale with measurements

SLO:

✓ To determine the wavelength of the given laser source using transmission diffraction
grating method

D = the distance from the grating to the screen.

d = the spacing between every two lines (same thing as every two sources)
If there are (N) lines per mm of the grating, then (d), the space between every two adjacent
lines or (every two adjacent sources) is
1
d=
N
The diffraction grating formula for the principal maxima is: d sinθ = n λ
where n is the order of diffraction ( = 1, 2, 3, ...) and θ angle of diffraction.
sinθ
λ= (meter)
Nn
Observation:

Number of lines per meter on the grating is 2500

 VIT University, Vellore Campus PHY 1701 (Engineering Physics) Lab Manual and Record
Date:20-04-2021 Reg. No.20BIT0054

Fig 2. Experimental Setup

Tabular Column:

n S 2L L tanθ=L/S θ=tan-1(L/S) sinθ Mean λ

(cm)
25 3.4 1.7 0.068 3.890 0.068 0.107 928×103

1 30 6.6 3.3 0.110 6.277 0.109

35 10.2 5.1 0.146 2.306 0.144

25 4.0 2.0 0.080 4.574 0.709 0.126 252×103

2 3.0 1.5 0.133 7.575 0.131
30
35 12.0 6.0 0.171 9.704 0.168

25 4.6 2.3 0.092 5.256 0.091 0.147 196×103

3 30 9.4 4.7 0.157 8.923 0.155

35 14.0 7.0 0.20 11.309 0.196

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Calculation:
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