Gaussian beam transfer through hard-aperture optics

Abstract

We consider Gaussian beam diffraction by hard circular and rectangular-slit apertures. Both numerical results and accurate elementary analytic approximations are derived for the fraction of transmitted power (or energy) contained within the main central lobe of the far-field (or focal-plane) irradiation distribution as a function of the truncation ratio.

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