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What does diffractive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (physics) Having the ability to diffract light
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A third, very-thick resist is then coated over the resist lenses and patterned to protect the diffractive elements.
Few security devices are as versatile or provide as many benefits as the hologram, which form part of a wider group of diffractive elements known as Optical Variable Devices.
Superimposing such a diffractive structure on an aspheric surface yields an achromatic singlet whose spherical and chromatic aberrations are corrected.
Optical configurations include plano, spherical, aspherical, toric, cylindrical, diffractive, and sometimes combinations of these.
These diffractive spectra have been examined with great skill by Draper and Langley.

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