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By linear scalar diffraction theory, complementary aperture transmissions and give under identical illumination. In Fraunhofer diffraction, away from the direct forward beam , so : the complementary screens have identical off-axis diffraction intensities. This is Babinet's principle. Their complex amplitudes, rather than their intensities, add. The direct beam is the exception; real conducting-edge vector effects are outside this ideal scalar statement.

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