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What is a diffraction grating?

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(i) Grating is a plane sheet of transparent material on which opaque rulings are made with a fine diamond pointer.
(ii) A diffraction grating is an optical component with a periodic structure that splits and diffracts light into several beam travelling in difference direction.
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