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Properties of light like diffraction and interference are explained using Huygen's construction, which takes into account the wave nature of light. I can't see how HUP can explain such diffraction patterns of maxima and minima.

Properties of light like diffraction and interference are explained using Huygen's construction, which takes into account the wave nature of light.

The Huygens–Fresnel principle states that each point on a wavefront is itself the source of a spherical wavelet, and the infinite secondary wavelets emanating from each of the infinite unique points on the wavefront mutually interfere. The sum of these spherical wavelets at any point in space, at any time, gives the phase at that point.

I can't see how HUP can explain such diffraction patterns of maxima and minima.

If you consider light to be a wave, then Huygens' principle explains the single slit experiment (which we call diffraction of light wave)

HUP can explain the same phenomenon as well, but in this case we consider the particle nature of light, i.e. it is composed of photons.

All in all, HUP considers the particle nature of light while Huygens' principle considers the wave nature of light.

Properties of light like diffraction and interference are explained using Huygen's construction, which takes into account the wave nature of light. I can't see how HUP can explain such diffraction patterns of maxima and minima.

If you consider light to be a wave, then Huygens' principle explains the single slit experiment (which we call diffraction of light wave)

HUP can explain the same phenomenon as well, but in this case we consider the particle nature of light, i.e. it is composed of photons. So, obviously, idk why we call the phenomenon 'diffraction' if we consider using HUP because the term diffraction is solely reserved for the WAVE NATURE of anything.

All in all, HUP considers the particle nature of light while Huygens' principle considers the wave nature of light.

If you consider light to be a wave, then Huygens' principle explains the single slit experiment (which we call diffraction of light wave)

HUP can explain the same phenomenon as well, but in this case we consider the particle nature of light, i.e. it is composed of photons.

All in all, HUP considers the particle nature of light while Huygens' principle considers the wave nature of light.