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Uniform rectangular aperture: the sinc-squared Fraunhofer pattern and its exact zeros and maxima

Physical scope

Exact computation in the adopted scalar aperture-diffraction model for a uniform rectangular aperture: the Fraunhofer amplitude 4abA0sinc⁡(kan1)sinc⁡(kbn2) and the sinc-squared model intensity pattern with its zeros and central maximum, up to the explicit Fraunhofer error of the parent theorem. Excluded: measured diffraction records, absolute radiometric calibration, polarization and vector effects, screen interaction and aperture back-reaction, apparatus models, sampling laws and every empirical or statistical claim.

Example

Assume Countable Choice (ACω) as carried by Controlled Fraunhofer and Fresnel estimates for the scalar aperture model, with intensity-error transfer and by the Riemann-Lebesgue comparison and Fubini suppliers used in the integral reduction below (The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)). Work in the scalar aperture model of The adopted scalar aperture-diffraction model and Controlled Fraunhofer and Fresnel estimates for the scalar aperture model, with intensity-error transfer, with frequency ω>0, k=ω/c, aperture plane y3=0, model field u=Gk∗α and I(x)=12∣u(x)∣2. Fix lengths a>0, b>0 in metres and A0∈C∖{0} in V m−2, so that α has the model unit V; identify the rectangle R:=[−a,a]×[−b,b]⊂R2 with the planar aperture {(y1,y2,0):(y1,y2)∈R}, let ȷ:R2→R3 be ȷ(y1,y2)=(y1,y2,0), and define the uniform rectangular aperture distribution as the plane-embedding pushforward

α(E):=A0 λ2(R∩ȷ−1(E))(E⊆R3 Borel).

This is a finite complex measure on R3, supported on the embedded compact rectangle S=ȷ(R) with ∣y∣≤a′:=a2+b2 and total variation ∥α∥TV=4ab∣A0∣ (Axis-parallel rectangles in Rm and their volume, The measure with density f relative to μ, Integration against a signed or complex measure, and the class L^1(nu) = L^1(|nu|)). Then: (a) [Fraunhofer amplitude] with sinc⁡ξ:=sin⁡ξ/ξ for ξ≠0 and sinc⁡0:=1, the Fraunhofer amplitude factor of Controlled Fraunhofer and Fresnel estimates for the scalar aperture model, with intensity-error transfer(a) is exactly

∫e−ikn⋅y dα(y)=4abA0sinc⁡(ka n1)sinc⁡(kb n2)(n=(n1,n2,n3)∈S2),

an identity for every direction n (The Euclidean inner product ⟨x,y⟩=∑k<nxkyk on Rn, The complex exponential by its power series, exp⁡(x+iy)=ex(cos⁡y+isin⁡y), ∣exp⁡(x+iy)∣=ex, and eiπ+1=0, The second fundamental theorem: if G is differentiable on [a,b] with G′=f and f is integrable, then ∫abf=G(b)−G(a), The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine, Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: (f+g)′(c)=f′(c)+g′(c), (αf)′(c)=αf′(c), (fg)′(c)=f′(c)g(c)+f(c)g′(c), and (f/g)′(c)=(f′(c)g(c)−f(c)g′(c))/g(c)2 when g(c)≠0, Riemann--Fubini on product rectangles, with lower and upper section integrals and content-zero exceptional sections, Every continuous function on a closed nondegenerate rectangle in Rm is Riemann integrable, Riemann–Lebesgue comparison for distribution test integrands, The Lebesgue integral is linear on L1(μ)). (b) [Fraunhofer intensity] in the Fraunhofer regime of Controlled Fraunhofer and Fresnel estimates for the scalar aperture model, with intensity-error transfer(a) with aperture radius a′:=a2+b2, i.e. for r≥2a′, the model intensity is

IF(rn)=a2b2∣A0∣22π2r2sinc⁡2(ka n1)sinc⁡2(kb n2)

up to the Fraunhofer absolute error of that theorem, transferred to I by its clause (c). The pattern vanishes exactly where ka n1∈πZ∖{0} or kb n2∈πZ∖{0}, and, as a mathematical pattern on all S2, has its global maximum exactly at the two poles n=(0,0,±1). The model observes only x3>0; its allowed directions have n3>0, where the central maximum is only n=(0,0,1). (c) [Scope] this is an exact computation inside the adopted ideal scalar model, not a measured diffraction record: no absolute radiometric calibration, polarization content, screen interaction, apparatus model or sampling law is asserted, and the Fraunhofer/Fresnel error bounds of Controlled Fraunhofer and Fresnel estimates for the scalar aperture model, with intensity-error transfer are inherited rather than re-estimated.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Countable Choice; the data a>0, b>0, A0∈C∖{0}, the rectangle R=[−a,a]×[−b,b], the embedding ȷ(y1,y2)=(y1,y2,0), the pushforward α of the Example, and the model field u=Gk∗α, I=12∣u∣2 of the scalar aperture model.

[F1]

Parent model and theorem: the model field and I=12∣u∣2 are those of The adopted scalar aperture-diffraction model, and Controlled Fraunhofer and Fresnel estimates for the scalar aperture model, with intensity-error transfer provides, for a finite complex measure supported in ∣y∣≤a0 with r≥2a0 and all n∈S2, the Fraunhofer estimate u(rn)=eikr(4πr)−1∫e−ikn⋅y dα(y)+error with ∣error∣≤∥α∥TV(πr)−1[a0/r+ka02/r], uniformly in direction, together with the intensity-error transfer ∣12∣uapprox∣2−I∣≤12δ(∣u∣+∣uapprox∣) whenever ∣uapprox−u∣≤δ and the period-average identity of Period averages of products of real parts of complex exponentials.

[F2]

Rectangle, area and density measure: R is a nondegenerate closed rectangle in R2 with two-dimensional Lebesgue measure λ2(R)=4ab, its embedded image S=ȷ(R) is compact with ∣y∣≤a′=a2+b2 and the corners attaining a′, by Axis-parallel rectangles in Rm and their volume and A box in Rn with parameters ai≤bi is Lebesgue measurable of measure ∏i<n(bi−ai), whichever of its faces are included. The nonnegative restricted measure λ2∣R has density 1R as in The measure with density f relative to μ; the complex pushforward itself is defined by the displayed formula in the Example and verified in step 1.1.

[F3]

Measure-theoretic toolbox: ȷ is continuous, hence the inverse image of every Borel set is Borel; a finite complex measure on the Borel sets is countably additive and its total variation is as in A complex measure is a finite-valued countably additive set function and The total variation |nu|(E) from countable measurable partitions; the integral against it is defined by Integration against a signed or complex measure, and the class L^1(nu) = L^1(|nu|), and for any bounded Borel function h on a finite-variation measure space, h is integrable and ∣∫h dα∣≤∫∣h∣ d∣α∣≤∥h∥∞∥α∥TV by Integrals against signed or complex measures are bounded by total variation; this includes the simple-function bound (A continuous map has Borel preimages of Borel sets, Simple integrals are bounded by total variation, The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)).

[F4]

Integral comparison: for a bounded Borel function on a nondegenerate rectangle that is Riemann integrable, the Lebesgue integral exists and agrees with the Riemann integral (Riemann–Lebesgue comparison for distribution test integrands); a continuous function on a compact rectangle is Riemann integrable (Every continuous function on a closed nondegenerate rectangle in Rm is Riemann integrable); the Riemann double integral factors through iterated one-dimensional integrals when the sections are integrable (Riemann--Fubini on product rectangles, with lower and upper section integrals and content-zero exceptional sections); and the Lebesgue integral is complex-linear on L1 (The Lebesgue integral is linear on L1(μ)).

Verification

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1.1givenF2F3algebra

[The pushforward is a finite complex measure with the stated support and total variation] For disjoint Borel sets Em⊆R3 the inverse images ȷ−1(Em) are disjoint and Borel by [F3], and countable additivity of λ2 gives α(⋃mEm)=A0∑mλ2(R∩ȷ−1(Em))=∑mα(Em), while α(∅)=0; hence α is a complex measure, and it is finite because λ2(R)=4ab by [F2]. If E∩S=∅ then R∩ȷ−1(E)=∅, so α is supported in S. For every countable Borel partition {Em} of R3, the defining values sum to ∣A0∣∑mλ2(R∩ȷ−1(Em))=∣A0∣λ2(R)=4ab∣A0∣ by countable additivity and [F2]; taking the supremum over partitions gives ∥α∥TV=4ab∣A0∣<+∞.

2.1step 1.1F2F3algebra

[Pairing identity] For a complex simple Borel function s, its defining sum gives ∫s dα=A0∫Rs∘ȷ dλ2, since each level set pulls back to R∩ȷ−1(E), by [F3]. For bounded Borel f, choose M>0 bounding both real coordinates. For each positive integer N, partition [−M,M] at tj:=−M+2Mj/N, 0≤j≤N, into half-open intervals [tj,tj+1) except for the last interval, which includes M. On the Borel preimage of the cell with coordinate indices j,k, set sN:=tj+itk. This gives a finite-range Borel simple function with ∥f−sN∥∞≤22M/N. By [F3], the error in the left integral is at most 22M∥α∥TV/N, and the error in the right integral is at most 8ab∣A0∣2M/N, using λ2(R)=4ab. Passing to the limit in the simple-function identities proves ∫f dα=A0∫Rf∘ȷ dλ2.

3.1step 2.1F4F5algebra

[Fraunhofer amplitude] Fix n∈S2 and put f(y):=e−ikn⋅y, which is continuous on the compact support; by step 2.1, ∫e−ikn⋅y dα(y)=A0∫Re−ik(n1y1+n2y2) dλ2(y1,y2) because y=ȷ(y1,y2) and n⋅y=n1y1+n2y2 by [F5]. The integrand is continuous on the compact rectangle R, hence Riemann integrable, so the Lebesgue integral equals the Riemann double integral by [F4], and the Riemann double integral factors as the product of the one-dimensional integrals ∫−aae−ikn1y1dy1 and ∫−bbe−ikn2y2dy2 by [F4]. For n1≠0 the map y1↦e−ikn1y1/(−ikn1) is an antiderivative with derivative e−ikn1y1 by the chain, algebra and trigonometric derivative rules of [F5], so the second fundamental theorem gives ∫−aae−ikn1y1dy1=(e−ikn1a−eikn1a)/(−ikn1)=2sin⁡(ka n1)/(kn1)=2asinc⁡(ka n1); for n1=0 the integral is 2a=2asinc⁡0 by the separate value of sinc. The second factor is analogous, giving the displayed identity 4abA0sinc⁡(ka n1)sinc⁡(kb n2) for every direction n.

4.1step 3.1F1F2algebra

[Fraunhofer intensity] For r≥2a′ the support bound ∣y∣≤a′ of [F2] puts the model in the regime of the Fraunhofer estimate of [F1] with aperture radius a′, so u(rn)=eikr(4πr)−1⋅4abA0sinc⁡(ka n1)sinc⁡(kb n2)+R(rn) with ∣R(rn)∣≤∥α∥TV(πr)−1[a′/r+k(a′)2/r] uniformly in direction by step 3.1. Taking moduli, ∣uF(rn)∣=ab∣A0∣πr ∣ ⁣sinc⁡(ka n1)∣ ∣ ⁣sinc⁡(kb n2)∣, so IF(rn)=12∣uF(rn)∣2=a2b2∣A0∣22π2r2sinc⁡2(ka n1)sinc⁡2(kb n2), and the intensity-error transfer of [F1] bounds ∣I(rn)−IF(rn)∣ by the Fraunhofer field error.

5.1step 4.1F6algebra

[Zeros of the pattern] By definition of sinc and the zero set of sine in [F6], sinc⁡ξ=0 exactly when ξ∈πZ∖{0}; since k,a,b>0 and the two factors multiply, IF(rn)=0 exactly when ka n1∈πZ∖{0} or kb n2∈πZ∖{0}.

5.2step 4.1F2F6algebra

[Global maxima] First, ∣sin⁡x∣≤∣x∣ for every real x, with equality exactly at x=0: for x>0 choose δ:=min⁡{x/3,π/6}>0; on [δ,2δ]⊆[0,π/2] the cosine is positive and strictly decreasing, so ∣cos⁡t∣=cos⁡t≤cos⁡δ<1 there, while ∣cos⁡t∣≤1 everywhere; the second fundamental theorem, the integral triangle bound and monotonicity of [F6] give ∣sin⁡x∣=∣∫0xcos⁡t dt∣≤∫0x∣cos⁡t∣ dt≤(x−δ)+δcos⁡δ=x−δ(1−cos⁡δ)<x, and for x<0 oddness of sine in [F6] gives ∣sin⁡x∣=∣sin⁡(−x)∣<∣x∣, while x=0 gives equality. Hence ∣ ⁣sinc⁡ξ∣≤1 with equality exactly at ξ=0; since k,a,b>0, the modulus of the product in step 4.1 equals the prefactor exactly when ka n1=0 and kb n2=0, that is n1=n2=0, which on S2 means n=(0,0,±1); these two poles are therefore exactly the global maxima of the pattern on S2, and the model's half-space x3>0 forces n3>0, leaving only the positive pole.

6.1step 3.1step 4.1step 5.2F1F3F4given∎

[Scope and choice accounting] The computation is exact inside the adopted scalar model: by [F1] it inherits the Fraunhofer and Fresnel error bounds rather than re-estimating them, it makes no measured-intensity, apparatus, sampling or calibration claim, and no polarization or screen-interaction content is introduced; only model comparisons of I between observation points are read from it, which is clause (c). The only choice principle used is the Countable Choice carried by the parent theorem and by the Riemann-Lebesgue comparison and Fubini interfaces of [F4]; the remaining steps are explicit finite computations, so no further choice is made.

Remarks

  • The pattern's mathematical maxima on the whole sphere sit at the two poles, but the model field is only defined for x3>0; the observable central maximum is the single direction n=(0,0,1), and the lower pole belongs to the extension of the formula, not to the model's observation region.
  • The zeros ka n1∈πZ∖{0} or kb n2∈πZ∖{0} are exact zeros of the ideal Fraunhofer factor; a finite measurement could not verify exact darkness, and no such empirical claim is made here.

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