Abstract

A numerical method for calculating the optical image of a thick line object is presented. It consists of slicing (fictitiously) the object and of analyzing the propagation through each elementary slice. The method is first developed for coherent light and then generalized for partially coherent illumination. Some results are compared with other simulations and with experiments.

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