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English: A line of point scatterers behave approximately as a partial mirror. When the scatterers are arranged in a crystal, each line will reflect light, and all of those reflections will interfere with each other. (Animation made for scalar fields in 2D)
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Source https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1261314633673080835
Author Jacopo Bertolotti
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https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1030470604418428929

Mathematica 12.0 code

sinstep[t_] := Sin[\[Pi]/2 t]^2
stopstep[t_] := t (2 - t);
\[Lambda] = Sqrt[2];
k0 = (2 \[Pi])/\[Lambda];
c = 1;
\[Omega] = c k0;
\[Alpha] = 4/(k0^2 I);
\[Sigma] = (k0^3 Norm[\[Alpha]]^2)/4;
G[r_] := N[I/4 HankelH1[0, k0 Norm[r] ]];
ReMapC[x_] := RGBColor[(Cos[2 \[Pi] x] + 1)/2 UnitStep[x - 0.5], 0, (Cos[2 \[Pi] x] + 1)/2 UnitStep[0.5 - x]];
\[Theta] = -\[Pi]/4;
E0[x_, y_] := E^(I k0 (Cos[\[Theta]] x + Sin[\[Theta]] y))/4 E^(-((-Sin[\[Theta]] x + Cos[\[Theta]] y)^2/(2 3^2)));

p0 = Table[
   sources = {stopstep[t] ({-5, 0} - {11, 0}) + {11, 0}};
   nsources = Dimensions[sources][[1]];
   DensityPlot[
    Re[E0[x, y]/4 + Sum[G[{x, y} - sources[[j]]] E0[sources[[j, 1]], sources[[j, 2]] ], {j, 1, nsources}] ], {x, -10, 10}, {y, -10, 10}, PlotPoints -> 100, ColorFunction -> ReMapC, Frame -> False, PlotRange -> {-0.5, 0.5}, RegionFunction -> Function[{x, y}, And @@ Table[Norm[{x, y} - sources[[j]]] > 0.2, {j, 1, nsources}]  ], Epilog -> { Black, Thick, Table[Circle[sources[[j]], 0.2], {j, 1, nsources}]}]
   , {t, 0, 1, 0.05}];

p1 = Table[
   sources = Table[{j, 0}, {j, -5, k, 1}];
   nsources = Dimensions[sources][[1]];
   DensityPlot[
    Re[E0[x, y]/10 + Sum[G[{x, y} - sources[[j]]] E0[sources[[j, 1]], sources[[j, 2]] ], {j, 1, nsources}] ], {x, -10, 10}, {y, -10, 10}, PlotPoints -> 100, ColorFunction -> ReMapC, Frame -> False, PlotRange -> {-0.5, 0.5}, RegionFunction -> Function[{x, y}, And @@ Table[Norm[{x, y} - sources[[j]]] > 0.2, {j, 1, nsources}]  ], Epilog -> {White, Table[Disk[sources[[j]], 0.2], {j, 1, nsources}], Black, Thick, 
      Table[Circle[sources[[j]], 0.2], {j, 1, nsources}]}]
   , {k, -4, 5, 1}];

p2 = Table[
   sources = 
    sinstep[t]*(Table[{j, j - 5}, {j, -5, 5, 1}] - Table[{j, 0}, {j, -5, 5, 1}]) + Table[{j, 0}, {j, -5, 5, 1}];
   nsources = Dimensions[sources][[1]];
   DensityPlot[
    Re[E0[x, y]/10 + Sum[G[{x, y} - sources[[j]]] E0[sources[[j, 1]], sources[[j, 2]] ], {j, 1, nsources}] ], {x, -10, 10}, {y, -10, 10}, PlotPoints -> 100, ColorFunction -> ReMapC, Frame -> False, PlotRange -> {-0.5, 0.5}, RegionFunction -> Function[{x, y}, And @@ Table[ Norm[{x, y} - sources[[j]]] > 0.2, {j, 1, nsources}]  ], Epilog -> {White, Table[Disk[sources[[j]], 0.2], {j, 1, nsources}], Black, Thick, 
      Table[Circle[sources[[j]], 0.2], {j, 1, nsources}]}]
   , {t, 0, 1, 0.051}];

p3 = Table[
   sources = Flatten[Table[{x, y} , {x, -5, 5, 1}, {y, 0, -k, -1}], 1];
   nsources = Dimensions[sources][[1]];
   DensityPlot[
    Re[E0[x, y]/10 + Sum[G[{x, y} - sources[[j]]] E0[sources[[j, 1]], sources[[j, 2]] ], {j, 1, nsources}] ], {x, -10, 10}, {y, -10, 10}, PlotPoints -> 100, ColorFunction -> ReMapC, Frame -> False, PlotRange -> {-0.5, 0.5}, RegionFunction -> Function[{x, y}, And @@ Table[Norm[{x, y} - sources[[j]]] > 0.2, {j, 1, nsources}]  ], Epilog -> {White, Table[Disk[sources[[j]], 0.2], {j, 1, nsources}], Black, Thick, 
      Table[Circle[sources[[j]], 0.2], {j, 1, nsources}]}]
   , {k, 0, 3, 1}];

ListAnimate[Join[p0, p1, p2, Reverse[p2], p3, Table[p3[[-1]], {10}] , Reverse[p3], Reverse[p1], Reverse[p0] ] ]

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Visualization of Bragg diffraction

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