For an axial point source a distance before a square aperture and an observer a distance beyond it, source and observation wave phase curvatures add: . With aperture side , put . Separation into two one-dimensional Fresnel integrals gives the field normalized to its unobscured value,
At an off-axis observer , centre the dimensionless coordinates on and . If are the directed Cornu spiral chords between the corresponding aperture-edge parameters, . This is a product of complex interval factors, rather than a sum of two intensities. The unobscured field is evaluated at the same observation point and includes its common propagation wave phase.

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