Abstract
A revised formulation of the image light distribution of an incoherent line source proposed by Steel [Rev. Opt. 31, 334–340 (1952)] is presented. Analytical and numerical results based on this new representation are given. We explicitly show that a major error in Steel’s final expression generates singularities, thereby preventing convenient numerical computation.
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