"""Plot an ideal circular pupil's Airy response (Python 3.14, NumPy, Matplotlib). Run from _media; the opaque PNG is written into the current directory. Bessel values use the integer-order integral and NumPy Gauss-Legendre nodes. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.colors import LogNorm from matplotlib.patches import Circle import numpy as np FIRST_ZERO = 3.8317059702075125 _nodes, _weights = np.polynomial.legendre.leggauss(128) _angles = (_nodes + 1) * np.pi / 2 def bessel_j(order, argument): """Jn(u) = pi^-1 integral_0^pi cos(u sin(t) - n t) dt.""" values = np.asarray(argument, dtype=float) flat = values.ravel() result = np.empty_like(flat) for start in range(0, flat.size, 2048): part = flat[start:start + 2048] phase = part[:, None] * np.sin(_angles) - order * _angles result[start:start + part.size] = np.cos(phase) @ (_weights / 2) return result.reshape(values.shape) def airy_intensity(argument): """Peak-normalized intensity; series avoids small-u cancellation.""" values = np.asarray(argument, dtype=float) small = np.abs(values) < 0.1 amplitude = np.empty_like(values) square = values[small] ** 2 amplitude[small] = 1 - square / 8 + square ** 2 / 192 - square ** 3 / 9216 amplitude[~small] = 2 * bessel_j(1, values[~small]) / values[~small] return amplitude ** 2 def main(): plt.rcParams.update({"font.size": 11, "axes.spines.top": False, "axes.spines.right": False, "figure.facecolor": "white", "axes.facecolor": "white"}) fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 5.2), layout="constrained") grid = fig.add_gridspec(2, 2, width_ratios=(1, 1.12)) image_ax = fig.add_subplot(grid[:, 0]) linear_ax = fig.add_subplot(grid[0, 1]) log_ax = fig.add_subplot(grid[1, 1], sharex=linear_ax) extent = 3.2 xy = np.linspace(-extent, extent, 441) radius = np.hypot(xy[:, None], xy[None, :]) field = airy_intensity(FIRST_ZERO * radius) artist = image_ax.imshow(np.maximum(field, 1e-5), origin="lower", extent=(-extent, extent, -extent, extent), cmap="Blues", norm=LogNorm(vmin=1e-5, vmax=1), interpolation="nearest") image_ax.add_patch(Circle((0, 0), 1, fill=False, linestyle="--", linewidth=1.4, edgecolor="#d56a00")) image_ax.set(xlabel=r"$x/r_1$", ylabel=r"$y/r_1$", title="Image intensity (log colour scale)") image_ax.text(0, -2.85, "Dashed circle: first zero", ha="center", color="#7b3d00", bbox={"facecolor": "white", "alpha": 0.95, "edgecolor": "none"}) colorbar = fig.colorbar(artist, ax=image_ax, fraction=0.046, pad=0.02, ticks=[1, 1e-2, 1e-4]) colorbar.set_label(r"$I/I_0$") radial_x = np.linspace(0, extent, 2001) profile = airy_intensity(FIRST_ZERO * radial_x) linear_ax.plot(radial_x, profile, color="#1764a0", linewidth=2) linear_ax.set(ylabel=r"$I/I_0$", ylim=(-0.025, 1.07), title="Same radial profile") linear_ax.tick_params(labelbottom=False) log_ax.semilogy(radial_x, np.maximum(profile, 1e-8), color="#1764a0", linewidth=2) log_ax.set(xlabel=r"Radius $r/r_1$", ylabel=r"$I/I_0$ (log)", ylim=(1e-5, 1.2)) for ax in (linear_ax, log_ax): ax.axvline(1, color="#d56a00", linestyle="--", linewidth=1.4) ax.set_xlim(0, extent) ax.grid(alpha=0.18) linear_ax.annotate("First dark ring", xy=(1, 0), xytext=(1.4, 0.4), arrowprops={"arrowstyle": "->", "color": "#7b3d00"}, color="#7b3d00") fig.suptitle("Circular aperture: the Airy disk and its surrounding rings", fontsize=15) fig.savefig(Path.cwd() / (Path(__file__).stem + ".png"), dpi=140, facecolor="white", transparent=False) plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()