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DescriptionPoissonspot simulation d2mm.jpg	English: Author: Thomas Reisinger. Poisson Spot showing in the shadow of a 2-mm-diameter disc at a distance of 1 m from the disc. The point source has a wavelength of 633 nm (e.g. He-Ne Laser) and is located 1 m from the disc. Plot generated using GNU Plot and a C program.   This plot was created with Gnuplot.
Date	18 June 2011 (original upload date)
Source	Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.
Author	Treisinger at English Wikipedia
Permission (Reusing this file)	CC-BY-SA-3.0.

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• 2011-06-18 13:11 Treisinger 800×800× (100794 bytes) Author: Thomas Reisinger. Poisson Spot showing in the shadow of a 2-mm-diameter disc at a distance of 1 m from the disc. The point source has a wavelength of 633 nm (e.g. He-Ne Laser) and is located 1 m from the disc. Plot generated using GNU Plot and a