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Why interference still occurs when a beam of red light passes through a hole created by the slits? The screen captures different brightness of red light.

If there are no interferences took place, the brightness should be uniform.

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The situation as if this one represents.

So there's basically two slits of differing sizes? You should still get interference. But with a hole that's very wide you will probably lose contrast. Diffraction effects come into play when you look at the slit/hole sizes. As the hole gets big the diffraction peak gets narrow, and you won't see the higher interference orders.

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