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1.INTRODUCTIONOptic is a main content in physics education and the wave optics is an important point of optic to explain some phenomena, such as interference and diffraction of light, it is necessary to go beyond geometrical optics1-3. But many students understand and master the wave optics difficultly; it is mainly because that the wave optics has the certain abstractness4-5. What ‘more, the optical experiments should be operated in the daytime, otherwise, the phenomena of wave optics are difficult to operate and observe in the optical experiment because of the complex operations and the interference of background light. Accordingly, how to help the students understand the wave optics becomes very important. In this paper, a new demonstration instrument of the wave-optic which can be used to demonstrate some phenomena such as interference and diffraction of light is given. Compared with conventional optical instruments, it is easy to operate and don’t need the daytime. Accordingly, it is beneficial to understanding knowledge of the wave-optic for the students in the everyday teaching.. 2.DESIGNFigure 1 gives the structural diagram of the demonstration instrument of the wave optics. It is mainly composed of a battery, Laser diodes (650nm and 532nm) and the screens which have a multi-slit, a crossing-grating, a single-slit, a pinhole and a one-dimensional grating in Fig.1(a). The corresponding photo of the demonstration instrument of the wave optics is shown in Fig.2 (b). 3.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION3.1Single-slit diffractionFig.3 gives the diffraction images of the different width of the single slits which sizes are 0.05mm, 0.1mm, 0.2mm and 0.4mm respectively. It can be seen from the diffraction images that the width of the diffraction fringe is is proportional to the laser wavelengths when the width of the single slit is a constant. Taking into account the condition for the central bright fringes6 Figure 3.Diffraction images of the different width of the single slits (a: 0.05mm; b: 0.1mm; c: 0.2mm; d: 0.4mm)  Where D, a and λ are the distance, the width of the single slit and the lase wavelength respectively. When the values of D and a are 5m and 0.1mm, the widths of the central bright fringes are 6.5cm and 5.32cm respectively under the different laser wavelengths 3.2Pinhole diffractionThe diffraction images of the pinholes which the pinholes diameters are 0.4mm and 0.2mm respectively are shown in Fig.4. With increasing the pinholes diameters the diffraction images of the pinholes becoming more and more obvious. Fig.5 gives the diffraction images of the triangle pinholes which side length is 0.2mm and the rectangular aperture which side length is 0.4mm×0.2mm. Compared with the triangle pinholes, it can be seen that the diffraction phenomenon can be more easily observed from the rectangular aperture. 3.3One dimensional-grating and the crossing-grating diffractionFigs. 6 and 7 give the diffraction images of the one-dimensional grating and the crossing-grating. The red, green and two-beam laser diffractions from left to right on the same grating are shown in Fig.6(a). In Fig.6 (b), it shows the diffraction phenomena when the different gratings which the line densities are 100L/mm, 300L/mm and 600L/mm from left to right are illustrated with the two laser beams, and indicates the diffraction stripes increase gradually with the line densities increasing. In Fig.7, the line densities of the crossing-gratings are 0.06mm, 0.08m and 0.1mm from left to right individually. It can be seen that the line densities has little effect on two-beam laser diffractions. 4.CONCLUSIONSIn this paper, a demonstration device is produced in order to be used observe diffraction phenomena, such as Single-slit, pinhole, One dimensional-grating and the crossing-grating diffractions. The set can serve the demo for general classroom and demonstrate the diffraction phenomena on wave-optics. It helps students to comprehend the concept and to get more perceptual knowledge of wave-optics in the physics education. 5.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis research was supported by the Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hubei Province (Grant No. 2014378, 2016398), and Hubei Engineering University (Grant No.2014A26). We would like to thank Professor Guangwu Yang for providing the instrument of the wave optics. REFERENCESErsoy, O. K.,
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