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OCR: DIFFRACTION AND INTERFERENCE IFFRACTION is the spreading of Small gap Small gap light waves as they pass through small gap or around barrier Interference occurs when identical waves of light meet so that they are either in phase, with the crests of each Interference wave matching, or out of phase, with Diffraction the trough of one wave meeting the crest of another. The English scientist Thomas Young (1773 1829) set un expe riment in which light was diffracted through a slit The light waves then interfered to produce bright bands where the waves were in phase and darr bands where Light waves they were out of phase Young proved that light bebaves asa wave showing that displays characteristics fhoth and inter ference wayes dark both