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What happens when you increase the number of slits per millimeter (decrease the spacing between slits)?

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Increasing the number of slits not only makes the diffraction maximum sharper, but also much more intense. If a 1 mm diameter laser beam strikes a 600 line/mm grating, then it covers 600 slits and the resulting line intensity is 90,000 x that of a double slit. Such a multiple-slit is called a diffraction grating.

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