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I know, but my problem is that if you put an obstacle in the way, like the edges of a window, you shouldn't just get diffraction immediately after the edge, but in the whole area after it. Just after the window the points of the wavefront that narrowly passed the edge will 'leak' a portion of...

At the edges of the window, yes, but it should also diffract in mid-air.

Yes, or laser light, or basically whenever light casts a shadow.

What I mean is that, when the wavefront emerges from the slit, some points on it are on the outskirt of the wavefront, meaning they passed the sides of the slit narrowly. If the original wave came from a point source, such as in a ripple tank or with sound, all the points on the wavefront would...

I have a question regarding light bundles and the diffraction of waves. I've been trying to wrap my head around the processes that govern how diffraction works and it all seems to make sense to me regarding water waves and sound. If I just apply Huygens' principle that every point in a wave is...