A point source of light passing through a rectangular aperture causes a diffraction pattern that is a extension of a single single diffraction pattern (In that the pattern appears in 2 axes).

The pattern that is observed is as follows:

Is it possible to create a 3D plot for the intensity of light. With the origin at the center of the diffraction pattern, from the image.

Something like this.

I know how to create a 2D intensity graph for the case of single slit diffraction. But that is using Tracker and not Mathematica. How can I make this 3D plot using Mathematica?

Also I haven't done image processing of this kind with Mathematica before. Am I supposed to pre-edit the image in any way or just use the raw image from the camera?

Thanks for any and all help.

A point source of light passing through a rectangular aperture causes a diffraction pattern that is a extension of a single single diffraction pattern (In that the pattern appears in 2 axes).

The pattern that is observed is as follows:

Is it possible to create a 3D plot for the intensity of light. With the origin at the center of the diffraction pattern, from the image.

Something like this.

I know how to create a 2D intensity graph for the case of single slit diffraction. But that is using Tracker and not Mathematica. How can I make this 3D plot using Mathematica?

Also I haven't done image processing of this kind with Mathematica before. Am I supposed to pre-edit the image in any way or just use the raw image from the camera?

Thanks for any and all help.

EDIT: Another question I just thought of. How can I extract the values for intensity for the maximas from the image?