| These optical components are called gratings because they are grooved with lines off which light bounces, or diffracts. |
| Since a zone plate diffracts light, a zone plate image is closely related to a pinhole image. |
| It is a quirk of nature that the way light diffracts through a grating means that there is an increase in dispersion with increasing order. |
| The beam initially diffracts linearly and self-focusses slowly into a soliton. |
| His lab has developed a chip device that diffracts light in the presence of certain antibodies. |
