Focal shifts in diffracted converging spherical waves
Focal shifts in diffracted converging spherical waves
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DOI:
10.1016/0030-4018(81)90108-5
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发表时间:
1981-10
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Yajun Li;E. Wolf
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作者:
Yajun Li;E. Wolf
It is known from a number of publications that when a converging, monochromatic spherical wave is diffracted at a circular aperture, the point of maximum intensity of the diffracted wave may not be at the geometrical focus of the incident wave, but may be located closer to the aperture. In the present note we show that when the incident wave is uniform and the angular semi-aperture is small, the ratio of such a shift Δƒ of the point of maximum intensity to the distance ƒ between the geometrical focus and the plane of the aperture depends only on the Fresnel numberNof the aperture when viewed from the geometrical focus. The effect becomes significant whenN≲ 5. WhenN= 1, for example, |Δƒ| ≈ 0.4 ƒ and the maximum intensity is approximately twice as large as the intensity at the geometrical focus.