There's for example a model known as Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics:The link doesn't provide an explanation. It just shows an analogy instead. It doesn't show how the results can be derived from some basic principles.
https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2018/01/this-post-is-part-of-a-collaborative-series-with-2/
When a walker passes through a single-slit (top row), it’s deflected in a seemingly random direction due to its waves interacting with the slit. But if you watch enough walkers traverse the slit, you can put together a statistical representation of where the walker will get deflected. Compare that with the results for a series of photons passing through a slit one-at-a-time, and you’ll see a remarkable match-up.
Light passing through a single slit forms a diffraction pattern somewhat different from those formed by double slits or diffraction gratings. Figure 1 shows a single slit diffraction pattern. Note that the central maximum is larger than those on either side, and that the intensity decreases rapidly on either side. In contrast, a diffraction grating produces evenly spaced lines that dim slowly on either side of center.
The analysis of single slit diffraction is illustrated in Figure 2. Here we consider light coming from different parts of the same slit. According to Huygens’s principle, every part of the wavefront in the slit emits wavelets. These are like rays that start out in phase and head in all directions. (Each ray is perpendicular to the wavefront of a wavelet.) Assuming the screen is very far away compared with the size of the slit, rays heading toward a common destination are nearly parallel. When they travel straight ahead, as in Figure 2a, they remain in phase, and a central maximum is obtained. However, when rays travel at an angle θ relative to the original direction of the beam, each travels a different distance to a common location, and they can arrive in or out of phase. In Figure 2b, the ray from the bottom travels a distance of one wavelength λ farther than the ray from the top. Thus a ray from the center travels a distance λ/2 farther than the one on the left, arrives out of phase, and interferes destructively. A ray from slightly above the center and one from slightly above the bottom will also cancel one another. In fact, each ray from the slit will have another to interfere destructively, and a minimum in intensity will occur at this angle. There will be another minimum at the same angle to the right of the incident direction of the light.
At the larger angle shown in Figure 2c, the path lengths differ by 3λ/2 for rays from the top and bottom of the slit. One ray travels a distance λ different from the ray from the bottom and arrives in phase, interfering constructively. Two rays, each from slightly above those two, will also add constructively. Most rays from the slit will have another to interfere with constructively, and a maximum in intensity will occur at this angle. However, all rays do not interfere constructively for this situation, and so the maximum is not as intense as the central maximum. Finally, in Figure 2d, the angle shown is large enough to produce a second minimum. As seen in the figure, the difference in path length for rays from either side of the slit is D sin θ, and we see that a destructive minimum is obtained when this distance is an integral multiple of the wavelength.
Thus, to obtain destructive interference for a single slit, D sin θ = mλ, for m = 1,−1,2,−2,3, . . . (destructive), where D is the slit width, λ is the light’s wavelength, θ is the angle relative to the original direction of the light, and m is the order of the minimum. Figure 3 shows a graph of intensity for single slit interference, and it is apparent that the maxima on either side of the central maximum are much less intense and not as wide.
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NO. What's wrong with it?The point is to make the laser beam spread instead of parallel. It can be done by adding a lens or removing normally used lens. In a common laser pointer, there's a lens to make the light beam parallel.
What lens!? I watched the (whole) video and there was no lens, in it.
I have three types of single slit experiments.An easier way to show that diffracted light in single slit experiment comes from the edges instead of the space between them is by simply tilting the aperture vertically. There's no change in the distance between the edges of the slit. While the distance between the slit and the screen only changes slightly. But the diffraction-interference pattern becomes curved.
1. Penetrable barriers are used to create the edges. Interference pattern shows on both sides. This is the type usually used in physics demonstrations as teaching materials.
2. Impenetrable barriers are used to create the edges. No interference pattern shows on either side.
3. One edge is penetrable barrier, while the other is impenetrable. Only one side shows interference pattern. The side behind the impenetrable barrier doesn't show interference effect.
The width of the slit is almost the same in all of those cases. But the results are different.
In physics, Babinet's principle states that the diffraction pattern from an opaque body is identical to that from a hole of the same size and shape except for the overall forward beam intensity. It was formulated in the 1800s by French physicist Jacques Babinet.