Calculating Spectral Band Width for Green and Sodium Light

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Homework Statement



I'm trying to write up my physics lab but i don't know how to calculate the spectral band width.


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I measured a coherence length for green light (546.1nm) to be 0.122mm. How do I calculate band width from this information that I measured?? Also I can't find the theoretical values for the spectral width for green light and sodium light. Does anyone know these values or know where to find them?

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NOTE the 546.1nm stated is the wavelength of green light.
 
The coherence length [tex]L_{cog}[/tex] and time cogerence [tex]t_{cog}[/tex]
and band width [tex]\Delta f_[/tex] are related

[tex]L_{cog}=c {\;} t_{cog}=k \frac{c}{\Delta f}[/tex]

where k depends on the shape of spectrum.