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In this contribution we describe an experiment in which radiation emitted by an infrared remote control is passed through a diffraction grating. An image of the diffraction pattern is captured using a cell phone camera and then used to determine the wavelength of the radiation Corresponding ideas were previously published in [1–3].
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Kuhn, J., Vogt, P. (2022). Diffraction Experiments with Infrared Remote Controls. In: Kuhn, J., Vogt, P. (eds) Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94044-7_67
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