The human eye is an optical system that, by forming images from an aperture, the pupil, is subject to light diffraction effects. Considering the pupil diameter to be 1.5 mm and that the maximum visual sensitivity occurs at λ = 550 nm, use Rayleigh's criterion to calculate the distance between the pixels of a computer screen so that a user 50 cm from distance cannot distinguish these points.

The human eye is an optical system that, by forming images from an aperture, the pupil, is subject to light diffraction effects. Considering the pupil diameter to be 1.5 mm and that the maximum visual sensitivity occurs at λ = 550 nm, use Rayleigh's criterion to calculate the distance between the pixels of a computer screen so that a user 50 cm from distance cannot distinguish these points.

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Chapter27: Wave Optics

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