 Scalar Diffraction Optics

Chapter of Interactive Optics by Sander Konijnenberg, Aurèle J.L. Adam and H. Paul Urbach. Whole-work author credits apply; no separate chapter author byline is established. No chapter publication or revision date is established; the URL path does not establish a date or edition.

Online text: interactivetextbooks.tudelft.nl/interactive-optics/content/Chap6_Diffraction/DiffractiveOptics_2022_01Clean.html

Cited passages: Scalar Diffraction Optics: Fresnel Approximation, equations (381)–(385), following paraxial equation remark; Fresnel and Fraunhofer Approximations, equations (386)–(392): omitted aperture quadratic phase, full-diameter Fresnel number; About the authors: biographies and final whole-book author credit.