Diffraction

doi:10.1117/3.2660873.ch4

Diffraction

Book: Fundamentals of Optics: An Introductory Course

Author(s): Yobani Mejía-Barbosa

Published: 2023

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2660873.ch4

Abstract

In this chapter, diffraction is limited to the paraxial range, i.e., Fresnel diffraction and Fraunhofer diffraction. Detailed examples of diffraction by a circular aperture and by a rectangular aperture are given. With diffraction through a circular aperture, the formation of the image is analyzed taking into account the wave nature of light; with diffraction through a rectangular aperture, the basic mathematics for one-dimensional diffraction gratings are developed.

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