Does light change its color after diffraction? lets have example of red light that is passing through garting, after passing it ,doest it change its color after diffraction?

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A diffraction grating does not affect the color of light that is diffracted by the grating. If a single-wavelength light beam enters the grating, only that same wavelength exits the grating. Adding the complication of having a medium of one refractive index on one side of the grating and a different refractive index on the other side does not change anything important. The wavelength shift that light experiences in going from one medium to another does not affect the energy of the photons. If the light struck the color-sensitive receptors in your eye, or any other color-sensitive detector, there would be no photon energy difference detectable and therefore no color difference.There is one exception: if the diffraction grating is moving, it will shift the energy of the photons - and their wavelengths - and their detectable color. The same is true of a moving mirror. A prime example is an acousto-optic beam deflector, in which a very high intensity acoustic wave travels through a transparent medium, forming a moving diffraction grating. A light beam passing through the moving diffraction grating is, of course, diffracted. Usually multiple beams emerge from the grating, each beam corresponding to a different diffraction order. Each diffracted beam is frequency-shifted by NxF, where F is the frequency of the acoustic wave and N is the diffraction order of the diffracted beam. The frequency shift is in fact an energy shift: the diffracted photons have a different energy than the incident photons.

Does light change its color after diffraction? lets have example of red light that is passing through garting, after passing it ,doest it change its color after diffraction?

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