A retrospective of Roland Shack’s "Global View of Diffraction"

James E. Harvey

doi:10.1117/12.2567297

23 August 2020 A retrospective of Roland Shack’s "Global View of Diffraction"

James E. Harvey

Proceedings Volume 11479, Roland V. Shack Memorial Session: A Celebration of One of the Great Teachers of Optical Aberration Theory; 114790A (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567297
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

In April of 1972 Professor Roland Shack presented a series of four colloquium talks at the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona in which he reformulated scalar diffraction theory in terms of the direction cosines of the propagation vectors of the angular spectrum of plane waves described by the Fourier integral transform of the diffracting aperture. The fourth lecture, entitled Radiometry and Lambert’s Law, describeddiffuse reflectance and surface scatter phenomena as merely a diffraction phenomenon caused by random phase variations in the system pupil function. In 1974 he elegantly condensed these four lectures into a single colloquium talk entitled A Global View of Diffraction. This paper is intended to provide a compilation showing the further development of that work over the last forty-six years.

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James E. Harvey "A retrospective of Roland Shack’s "Global View of Diffraction"", Proc. SPIE 11479, Roland V. Shack Memorial Session: A Celebration of One of the Great Teachers of Optical Aberration Theory, 114790A (23 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567297

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