Insert a centred opaque circular stop of diameter directly in the plane of the bundle. It transmits the same directions at every surviving position, but discards the surrounding annulus. Therefore
With the uniform radiance of etendue of a circular aperture and cone, the transmitted radiant flux is and the blocked fraction is . Surviving light rays retain their radiance; the stop has not concentrated them. Lossless propagation after the stop preserves the etendue of this surviving subset, not that of the original incident bundle. A stop placed elsewhere can select positions and directions together, so its physical area ratio alone need not give the transmitted radiant flux fraction.

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