Abstract

In this Letter, we describe the optical field associated with transmittances characterized by a slit-shaped curve. The influence of the curvature is that the diffraction field generates focusing regions. The focusing geometry corresponds to the geometry of the transmittance curve, except for scaling, rotations or translations. A relevant point is that the changes in the morphology of the diffraction field are bounded by the focusing regions. Our experimental and computational results are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions.

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