Abstract
Detailed measurements at a wavelength of 3.2 cm have been made of the phase distribution in the diffraction image produced by an aberration-free lens illuminated from a point source. The behavior of the phase of the electric field is shown by contours of constant phase (wavefronts) in the plane of the image space containing the axis and the H-vector of the radiating source. The region of the image space considered extends from the solid dielectric lens to a surface somewhat beyond the focus. Results are also shown of the phase distribution measured within about one wavelength of certain phase singularities which occur at the minima of intensity on the focal arc and on the axis. In general, there is very good agreement between plots of measured phase contours and plots of phase contours previously calculated from scalar diffraction theory.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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56 articles.
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