Abstract
It is shown that contrary to some recent claims the far field of a Gaussian beam does not contain contributions from high spatial frequency components of the source. Consequently no evanescent waves take part in the formation of the far field. Corresponding results for other types of wave fields are also briefly discussed.
© 1979 Optical Society of America
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