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film, digital) used to observe the diffraction pattern can have an intensity threshold for detection, the full diffraction pattern may not be apparent. In astronomy, the outer rings are frequently not apparent even in a highly magnified image of a star. It may be that none of the rings are apparent, in which case the star image appears as a disk (central maximum only) rather than as a full diffraction pattern. Furthermore, fainter stars will appear as smaller disks than brighter stars, because less of their central maximum reaches the threshold of detection. While in theory all stars or other "point sources" of a given wavelength and seen through a given aperture have the same Airy disk radius characterized by the above equation (and the same diffraction pattern size), differing only in intensity, the appearance is that fainter sources appear as smaller disks, and brighter sources appear as larger disks. This was described by Airy in his original work:
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explained. Thus the radius of the spurious disk of a faint star, where light of less than half the intensity of the central light makes no impression on the eye, is determined by , whereas the radius of the spurious disk of a bright star, where light of 1/10 the intensity of the central light is sensible, is determined by .
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Similar equations can also be derived for the obscured Airy diffraction pattern which is the diffraction pattern from an annular aperture or beam, i.e. a uniform circular aperture (beam) obscured by a circular block at the center. This situation is relevant to many common reflector telescope designs
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Log-log plot of aperture diameter vs angular resolution at the diffraction limit for various light wavelengths compared with various astronomical instruments. For example, the blue star shows that the Hubble Space Telescope is almost diffraction-limited in the visible spectrum at 0.1 arcsecs, whereas
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In a camera or imaging system an object far away gets imaged onto the film or detector plane by the objective lens, and the far field diffraction pattern is observed at the detector. The resulting image is a convolution of the ideal image with the Airy diffraction pattern due to diffraction from the
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In practice, the conditions for uniform illumination can be met by placing the source of the illumination far from the aperture. If the conditions for far field are not met (for example if the aperture is large), the far-field Airy diffraction pattern can also be obtained on a screen much closer to
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The rapid decrease of light in the successive rings will sufficiently explain the visibility of two or three rings with a very bright star and the non-visibility of rings with a faint star. The difference of the diameters of the central spots (or spurious disks) of different stars ... is also fully
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However, while the angle at which the first minimum occurs (which is sometimes described as the radius of the Airy disk) depends only on wavelength and aperture size, the appearance of the diffraction pattern will vary with the intensity (brightness) of the light source. Because any detector (eye,
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for barely resolving two objects that are point sources of light, such as stars seen through a telescope, is that the center of the Airy disk for the first object occurs at the first minimum of the Airy disk of the second. This means that the angular resolution of a diffraction-limited system is
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The practical effect of having a central obstruction in a telescope is that the central disc becomes slightly smaller, and the first bright ring becomes brighter at the expense of the central disc. This becomes more problematic with short focal length telescopes which require larger secondary
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A Gaussian beam transmitted through a hard aperture will be clipped. Energy is lost and edge diffraction occurs, effectively increasing the divergence. Because of these effects there is a Gaussian beam diameter which maximizes the intensity in the far field. This occurs when the
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Despite this feature of Airy's work, the radius of the Airy disk is often given as being simply the angle of first minimum, even in standard textbooks. In reality, the angle of first minimum is a limiting value for the size of the Airy disk, and not a definite radius.
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If two objects imaged by a camera are separated by an angle small enough that their Airy disks on the camera detector start overlapping, the objects cannot be clearly separated any more in the image, and they start blurring together. Two objects are said to be
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The conditions for being in the far field and exhibiting an Airy pattern are: the incoming light illuminating the aperture is a plane wave (no phase variation across the aperture), the intensity is constant over the area of the aperture, and the distance
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with approximately 1 μm diameter. However, at this f-number, spherical aberration limits visual acuity, while a 3 mm pupil diameter (f/5.7) approximates the resolution achieved by the human eye. The maximum density of cones in the human
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A circular laser beam with uniform intensity across the circle (a flat-top beam) focused by a lens will form an Airy disk pattern at the focus. The size of the Airy disk determines the laser intensity at the focus.
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The Airy pattern falls rather slowly to zero with increasing distance from the center, with the outer rings containing a significant portion of the integrated intensity of the pattern. As a result, the
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is approximately 170,000 per square millimeter, which implies that the cone spacing in the human eye is about 2.5 μm, approximately the diameter of the point spread function at f/5.
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the aperture by using a lens right after the aperture (or the lens itself can form the aperture). The Airy pattern will then be formed at the focus of the lens rather than at infinity.
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A circular laser beam with uniform intensity profile, focused by a lens, will form an Airy pattern at the focal plane of the lens. The intensity at the center of the focus will be
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was the radius of the aperture in inches, and the wavelength of light was assumed to be 0.000022 inches (560 nm; the mean of visible wavelengths). This is equal to the
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appear at a finite distance if a lens is placed at the aperture. Then the Airy pattern will be perfectly focussed at the distance given by the lens's focal length (assuming
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Diffraction from an aperture with a lens. The far field image will (only) be formed at the screen one focal length away, where R=f (f=focal length). The observation angle
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A radial cross-section through the Airy pattern (solid curve) and its Gaussian profile approximation (dashed curve). The abscissa is given in units of the wavelength
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diameter of the Gaussian is 89% of the aperture diameter, and the on axis intensity in the far field will be 81% of that produced by a uniform intensity profile.
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Light from a uniformly illuminated circular aperture (or from a uniform, flattop beam) will exhibit an Airy diffraction pattern far away from the aperture due to
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the red circle shows that the human eye should have a resolving power of 20 arcsecs in theory, though 20/20 vision resolves to only 60 arcsecs (1 arcminute)
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Far from the aperture, the angle at which the first minimum occurs, measured from the direction of incoming light, is given by the approximate formula:
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Longitudinal sections through a focused beam with (top) negative, (center) zero, and (bottom) positive spherical aberration. The lens is to the left.
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Mathematically, the diffraction pattern is characterized by the wavelength of light illuminating the circular aperture, and the aperture's size. The
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Airy wrote the first full theoretical treatment explaining the phenomenon (his 1835 "On the Diffraction of an Object-glass with Circular Aperture").
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is the angle of observation, i.e. the angle between the axis of the circular aperture and the line between aperture center and observation point.
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Derenzo, S. E. (2023). "Feynman photon path integral calculations of optical reflection, diffraction, and scattering from conduction electrons".
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Mahajan, Virendra N. (1986). "Uniform versus Gaussian beams: a comparison of the effects of diffraction, osbscuration, and aberrations".
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is the annular aperture obscuration ratio, or the ratio of the diameter of the obscuring disk and the diameter of the aperture (beam).
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from the aperture where the diffracted light is observed (the screen distance) is large compared to the aperture size, and the radius
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of the diffraction pattern is additionally characterized by the sensitivity of the eye or other detector used to observe the pattern.
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Therefore, the smallest angular separation two objects can have before they significantly blur together is given as stated above by
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smaller than half this value (one pixel for each object, one for each space between) would not significantly increase the captured
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is the Gaussian RMS width (in one dimension). If we equate the peak amplitude of the Airy pattern and Gaussian profile, that is,
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is the distance from the lens to the film. If we take the distance from the lens to the film to be approximately equal to the
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iris aperture or due to the finite size of the lens. This leads to the finite resolution of a lens system described above.
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Hence, the focal spot of a uniform circular laser beam (a flattop beam) focused by a lens will also be an Airy pattern.
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The Airy disk and diffraction pattern can be computed numerically from first principles using Feynman path integrals.
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of the system. The fractional encircled energy (the fraction of the total energy contained within a circle of radius
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Rivolta, Claudio (1986). "Airy disk diffraction pattern: comparison of some values of f/No. and obscuration ratio".
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above can be integrated to give the total power contained in the diffraction pattern within a circle of given size:
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is its distance to the aperture. Note that the Airy disk as given by the above expression is only valid for large
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The intensity at the maximum of the first ring is about 1.75% of the intensity at the center of the Airy disk.
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when the maximum of the first Airy pattern falls on top of the first minimum of the second Airy pattern (the
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Transactions Treatises on physical astronomy, light and sound contributed to the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
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Borghi, Riccardo (2014). "Plane-wave Fresnel diffraction by elliptic apertures: a Fourier-based approach".
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if the Airy disk radius is larger than the RMS spotsize determined from geometric ray tracing (see
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This is the special case of the Fourier integral of the elliptical cross section with half axes
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intensities have been adjusted to enhance the brightness of the outer rings of the Airy pattern.
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The diffraction pattern resulting from a uniformly illuminated, circular aperture has a bright
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of the Gaussian approximation to the Airy disk is about two-third the Airy disk radius, i.e.
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From this, it follows that the first dark ring in the diffraction pattern occurs where
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is the diameter of the aperture in meters. The full width at half maximum is given by
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is the source strength per unit area at the aperture, A is the area of the aperture (
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If a lens is used to focus the Airy pattern at a finite distance, then the radius
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applies; calculation of the shadow in the near-field must rather be handled using
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Thus, the ability of the system to resolve detail is limited by the ratio of λ/
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Airy, G. B., "On the Diffraction of an Object-glass with Circular Aperture",
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is the radial distance from the observation point to the optical axis and
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Diffraction from a circular aperture. The Airy pattern is observable when
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Zhang, Bo; Zerubia, Josiane; Olivo-Marin, Jean-Christophe (2007-04-01).
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at the center of the diffraction pattern is related to the total power
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is the separation of the images of the two objects on the film, and
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centered at the optical axis in the focal plane) is then given by:
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represents the radial distance from the center of the pattern, and
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of about 4 μm. In a digital camera, making the pixels of the
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is the radial distance in the focal plane from the optical axis,
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by the numerical aperture (and thus f-number) of its lens due to
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of the first dark ring on the focal plane is solely given by the
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of the light. The last two conditions can be formally written as
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of a lens. A typical setting for use on an overcast day would be
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light incident on the aperture) given by the above equations.
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under high magnification for an 1828 article on light for the
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rings around is called the Airy pattern. Both are named after
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Kenneth R. Spring; Brian O. Flynn & Michael W. Davidson.
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Kenneth R. Spring; Brian O. Flynn & Michael W. Davidson.
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The Fourier integral of the circular cross section of radius
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A computer-generated Airy disk from diffracted white light (
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of the aperture is not too much larger than the wavelength
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for sensitivity of S cone cells). This gives a value for
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the formulas reduce to the unobscured versions above.
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theory, it is common to describe an imaging system as
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is about 2.1, corresponding to a diffraction-limited
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The most important application of this concept is in
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Viewing the aperture of radius 23:A computer-generated image of an Airy disk. The 5809: 3505:that incorporate a secondary mirror, including 1681:{\displaystyle ka\sin {\theta }=3.8317\dots ,} 326:is the wavelength of the light in meters, and 55:pinhole aperture with 27 orders of diffraction 5458: 1100:pattern of a circular aperture, given by the 880: 2955:) are 83.8%, 91.0%, and 93.8% respectively. 2323:and the maximum of the first ring occurs at 110:of light. The Airy disk is of importance in 1010: 1957:is related to the commonly-cited f-number 67:at f/25 aperture. Image size: 1×1 mm. 47:A real Airy disk created by passing a red 5846:"Image Formation: Airy Pattern Formation" 5564: 4175: 3024:times the f-number of the optical system. 2189:{\displaystyle 2J_{1}(x)/x=1/{\sqrt {2}}} 1190: 1169: 717: 710: 626: 570: 5290:. Richard Griffin & Co. p. 491. 5281: 3499: 2999: 2982: 2964: 2116:This shows that the best possible image 1063: 1014: 827: 521: 58: 42: 30: 18: 5866: 5693: 5687: 5650: 5550: 5269: 2948:{\displaystyle J_{1}(ka\sin \theta )=0} 1088:stays the same as in the lensless case. 5920: 5869:"Diffraction from a Circular Aperture" 5763: 5362: 5353:, Dover Publications, 1980, pp. 39–40. 4505: 4218:{\displaystyle \epsilon \rightarrow 0} 2996:Approximation using a Gaussian profile 5891: 5728: 5428: 859: 141:described the appearance of a bright 5735:7. Notes on amateur telescope optics 5511:http://en.wikibooks.org/Marksmanship 5300: 1379:{\displaystyle k={2\pi }/{\lambda }} 990:{\displaystyle R>a^{2}/\lambda .} 438:{\displaystyle s={\frac {2.76}{a}},} 2348:{\displaystyle x=5.13562230\dots .} 2316:{\displaystyle x=2.58383899\dots ,} 2221:{\displaystyle x=1.61633995\dots ;} 1406:is the radius of the aperture, and 1053:{\displaystyle R\gg a^{2}/\lambda } 63:Airy disk captured by 2000 mm 13: 2545: 2438: 1937:is equal to the aperture's radius 370: 367: 364: 361: 14: 5944: 5803: 5729:Sacek, Vladimir (July 14, 2006). 5553:Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 4463:is the focal length of the lens. 4233:Comparison to Gaussian beam focus 2969:The Airy Pattern on the interval 2284:{\displaystyle 2J_{1}(x)/x=1/{e}} 5541:(Pergamon Press, New York, 1965) 4359:is the total power of the beam, 2834:{\displaystyle P(\theta )=P_{0}} 2076:≫1 it is simply approximated as 1345:of the first kind of order one, 1096:of the Airy pattern follows the 873:Some weapon aiming sights (e.g. 823: 5757: 5748: 5722: 5644: 5589: 5544: 5529: 5516: 5503: 5483: 5363:Graney, Christopher M. (2009). 1521:However the exact Airy pattern 868: 5452: 5422: 5419:, Prentice-Hall, 2000, p. 896. 5407: 5391: 5356: 5341: 5325: 5294: 5275: 5185: 5168: 5156: 5139: 5105: 5099: 4872: 4863: 4831: 4822: 4776: 4758: 4617: 4602: 4319: 4296: 4288: 4272: 4209: 4166: 4157: 4144: 4138: 4093: 4084: 4063: 4054: 4012: 4006: 3985: 3979: 3947: 3928: 3916: 3910: 3778: 3772: 3650: 3641: 3610: 3604: 3570: 3550: 3531: 3525: 3490:{\displaystyle 1.22\lambda N.} 3055: 3049: 2936: 2918: 2828: 2825: 2807: 2786: 2768: 2744: 2728: 2722: 2697: 2691: 2662: 2639: 2631: 2615: 2254: 2248: 2157: 2151: 1555: 1549: 1256: 1250: 1182: 1163: 1126: 1120: 760:{\displaystyle {\frac {f}{d}}} 603:This can also be expressed as 1: 5819:Nikon MicroscopyU (website). 5350:Amateur Astronomer's Handbook 4396:{\displaystyle A=\pi D^{2}/4} 3511:Schmidt–Cassegrain telescopes 3461:{\displaystyle 0.84\lambda N} 3259:{\displaystyle I'_{0}=I_{0},} 1933:where the numerical aperture 495:of a circular aperture. The 243:or, for small angles, simply 87:are descriptions of the best- 16:Diffraction pattern in optics 5857:(Interactive Java Tutorial) 5836:(Interactive Java Tutorial) 2552:{\displaystyle \mathrm {E} } 2411:incident on the aperture by 500:given by the same formulae. 407:Airy wrote this relation as 7: 5459:Steve Chapman, ed. (2000). 5282:Herschel, J. F. W. (1828). 5212: 3747:and x is defined as above: 2588:{\displaystyle A=\pi a^{2}} 2109:{\textstyle A\approx 1/2N.} 517: 10: 5949: 5583:10.1016/j.nima.2023.168679 2703:{\displaystyle I(\theta )} 1953:, the numerical aperture 1108:of the circular aperture: 881:Conditions for observation 531: 152:Encyclopedia Metropolitana 4403:is the area of the beam ( 3695:{\displaystyle \epsilon } 1836:(closely related to the 889:(far-field diffraction). 106:can make, limited by the 5467:McGraw-Hill Professional 4436:{\displaystyle \lambda } 3847:{\displaystyle \lambda } 3435:{\textstyle \omega _{0}} 3286:{\textstyle \omega _{0}} 3213:{\textstyle \omega _{0}} 3017:{\displaystyle \lambda } 1561:{\displaystyle J_{1}(x)} 1011:Mathematical formulation 946:{\displaystyle \lambda } 319:{\displaystyle \lambda } 5896:"Bessel Function Zeros" 5786:10.1364/JOSAA.31.002120 5526:, Addison Wesley (2001) 4495:{\displaystyle 1/e^{2}} 4443:is the wavelength, and 4423:is the beam diameter), 1419:{\displaystyle \theta } 1081:{\displaystyle \theta } 1060:(i.e. in the far field) 299:{\displaystyle \theta } 192: 5716:10.1364/JOSAA.3.000470 5491:"Eye Receptor Density" 5429:Hecht, Eugene (1987). 5229:Fraunhofer diffraction 5203: 5112: 4925: 4905: 4882: 4524: 4496: 4457: 4437: 4417: 4397: 4353: 4326: 4219: 4191: 3892: 3868: 3854:is the wavelength and 3848: 3828: 3808: 3741: 3696: 3674: 3491: 3462: 3436: 3394: 3335: 3287: 3266:and find the value of 3260: 3214: 3187: 3167: 3166:{\displaystyle I'_{0}} 3135: 3025: 3018: 2988: 2978: 2949: 2891: 2864: 2835: 2704: 2672: 2589: 2553: 2529: 2405: 2378: 2349: 2317: 2285: 2222: 2190: 2110: 2064: 1925: 1823: 1794: 1682: 1636: 1562: 1512:Fraunhofer diffraction 1492: 1420: 1400: 1380: 1335: 1308: 1279: 1098:Fraunhofer diffraction 1089: 1082: 1061: 1054: 991: 947: 927: 907: 887:Fraunhofer diffraction 833: 806: 761: 734: 684: 664: 644: 588: 528: 511: 485: 463: 439: 399: 342: 320: 300: 278: 235: 161: 68: 56: 40: 28: 5859:Molecular Expressions 5838:Molecular Expressions 5535:M. Born and E. Wolf, 5462:Optical System Design 5249:Point spread function 5234:Bloom (shader effect) 5204: 5113: 4926: 4906: 4883: 4525: 4497: 4458: 4438: 4418: 4398: 4354: 4352:{\displaystyle P_{0}} 4327: 4220: 4192: 3893: 3869: 3849: 3829: 3809: 3742: 3697: 3675: 3500:Obscured Airy pattern 3492: 3463: 3437: 3395: 3336: 3288: 3261: 3215: 3188: 3168: 3136: 3019: 3003: 2986: 2968: 2950: 2892: 2890:{\displaystyle J_{1}} 2865: 2863:{\displaystyle J_{0}} 2836: 2705: 2673: 2590: 2554: 2530: 2406: 2404:{\displaystyle P_{0}} 2379: 2377:{\displaystyle I_{0}} 2350: 2318: 2286: 2228:the 1/e point (where 2223: 2191: 2111: 2065: 1926: 1824: 1822:{\displaystyle q_{1}} 1795: 1683: 1637: 1563: 1493: 1421: 1401: 1381: 1336: 1334:{\displaystyle J_{1}} 1309: 1307:{\displaystyle I_{0}} 1280: 1083: 1067: 1055: 1018: 992: 948: 928: 908: 849:point spread function 831: 807: 762: 735: 694:of the lens, we find 685: 665: 645: 589: 525: 506: 486: 464: 440: 400: 343: 321: 301: 279: 236: 157: 62: 46: 34: 22: 5673:10.1364/AO.25.002404 5622:10.1364/AO.46.001819 5538:Principles of Optics 5301:Airy, G. B. (1835). 5270:Notes and references 5128: 4938: 4915: 4895: 4537: 4514: 4471: 4447: 4427: 4407: 4363: 4336: 4241: 4203: 3904: 3882: 3858: 3838: 3818: 3751: 3706: 3686: 3519: 3507:Newtonian telescopes 3472: 3446: 3419: 3359: 3300: 3270: 3224: 3197: 3177: 3147: 3043: 3008: 2905: 2874: 2847: 2716: 2685: 2599: 2563: 2541: 2417: 2388: 2361: 2327: 2295: 2232: 2200: 2135: 2080: 1967: 1844: 1806: 1694: 1646: 1572: 1536: 1430: 1410: 1390: 1349: 1318: 1291: 1114: 1072: 1023: 957: 937: 917: 897: 796: 744: 698: 674: 654: 607: 552: 473: 451: 413: 352: 330: 310: 290: 249: 203: 5811:Michael W. Davidson 5778:2014JOSAA..31.2120B 5708:1986JOSAA...3..470M 5665:1986ApOpt..25.2404R 5614:2007ApOpt..46.1819Z 5575:2023NIMPA105668679D 5513:, "Sight Alignment" 5369:The Physics Teacher 5319:1835TCaPS...5..283A 5254:Debye-Scherrer ring 4802: 4745: 4721: 4669: 4642: 4581: 4554: 4506:Elliptical aperture 4124: 4083: 4053: 4005: 3978: 3413:Optical lens design 3409:diffraction-limited 3239: 3162: 3118: 3073: 3037:profile, such that 2806: 2767: 2681:The expression for 2452: 1516:Fresnel diffraction 1386:is the wavenumber, 484:{\displaystyle {a}} 462:{\displaystyle {s}} 341:{\displaystyle {d}} 187:diffraction limited 135:George Biddell Airy 5893:Weisstein, Eric W. 5766:J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5696:J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5199: 5108: 4921: 4901: 4878: 4788: 4731: 4707: 4652: 4628: 4564: 4540: 4520: 4492: 4453: 4433: 4413: 4393: 4349: 4322: 4215: 4187: 4110: 4069: 4039: 3991: 3964: 3888: 3864: 3844: 3824: 3804: 3737: 3692: 3670: 3487: 3458: 3432: 3405:optical aberration 3390: 3331: 3283: 3256: 3227: 3210: 3183: 3163: 3150: 3131: 3104: 3061: 3026: 3014: 2989: 2979: 2945: 2887: 2860: 2831: 2792: 2753: 2700: 2668: 2585: 2549: 2525: 2436: 2401: 2374: 2345: 2313: 2281: 2218: 2186: 2106: 2060: 1921: 1831:numerical aperture 1819: 1790: 1678: 1632: 1558: 1488: 1416: 1396: 1376: 1331: 1304: 1275: 1090: 1078: 1062: 1050: 987: 943: 923: 903: 860:Focused laser beam 834: 802: 757: 730: 680: 660: 640: 584: 543:Rayleigh criterion 529: 497:Rayleigh criterion 493:angular resolution 481: 459: 435: 395: 338: 316: 296: 274: 231: 69: 57: 51:beam through a 90- 41: 29: 5885:Oldham Optical UK 5772:(10): 2120–2130. 5608:(10): 1819–1829. 5413:Giancoli, D. C., 5381:10.1119/1.3204117 5347:Sidgwick, J. B., 5219:Amateur astronomy 5194: 5087: 4924:{\displaystyle b} 4904:{\displaystyle a} 4851: 4620: 4605: 4523:{\displaystyle a} 4456:{\displaystyle f} 4416:{\displaystyle D} 4173: 3951: 3891:{\displaystyle R} 3867:{\displaystyle N} 3827:{\displaystyle R} 3802: 3657: 3617: 3580: 3386: 3327: 3186:{\displaystyle q} 3127: 3119: 2993: 2992: 2523: 2479: 2184: 2055: 2054: 2024: 2023: 1989: 1919: 1898: 1785: 1769: 1748: 1722: 1483: 1473: 1399:{\displaystyle a} 1263: 1204: 1106:Fourier transform 926:{\displaystyle a} 906:{\displaystyle R} 805:{\displaystyle x} 755: 725: 683:{\displaystyle f} 663:{\displaystyle x} 635: 618: 579: 430: 390: 269: 229: 5940: 5914: 5906: 5905: 5872: 5856: 5854: 5852: 5835: 5833: 5831: 5818: 5798: 5797: 5761: 5755: 5752: 5746: 5745: 5743: 5741: 5726: 5720: 5719: 5691: 5685: 5684: 5648: 5642: 5641: 5593: 5587: 5586: 5568: 5548: 5542: 5533: 5527: 5520: 5514: 5507: 5501: 5500: 5498: 5497: 5487: 5481: 5480: 5456: 5450: 5448: 5433:(2nd ed.). 5426: 5420: 5411: 5405: 5395: 5389: 5388: 5383:. 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