For off-center points on screen, Fresnel zones on aperture are displaced …harder to “integrate” mentally. When white and black areas are equal, light at P’ is _____ a) dimmest b) brightest P’

Fresnel zone plates as “lenses” f is the distance used to calculate the zones. Will change with l Spatial resolution of image is ,width of narrowest zone

Fresnel zone plates as “lenses” Thinnest zone included: Dr=25 nm. Used to image cell structures with soft xrays

How tightly can we focus light? Ray picture Wave picture

Diffraction from the focus of a gaussian beam Every finite-width beam is constantly diffracting. Must be always either diverging or converging! Self-divergence is largest for narrowest beams or tightest focus

Fresnel method works well When z >> zo, we are far enough from focus to go back to rays. zo: Rayleigh range beam width in terms of beam waist

Wavefronts on gaussian beams Wavefronts are flat only at z=0, and have radius R for z >> zo Given the ray geometry of focusing, find wo in terms of f,D D f

Laser cavity : need also to find where focus (origin) is. It’s simple algebra: R must match mirrors.

Fourier optical manipulation The “transform plane” is f after the lens. Suppose the aperture were removed. What would show up? If there were three plane waves with different angles?

In this FT of the letter E, sketch what you would see in the image plane if you blocked most of the dots arranged in the horizontal direction. a) I got it mostly right b) I got it mostly wrong.

Where do you block the high spatial frequencies?.