We treat the problem of a coherent spherical wave passing through a circular aperture and subsequently focused by a lens. Using the Huygens–Fresnel integral representation, an expression is derived for the axial intensity beyond the lens. It predicts that the large-F-number focal shift may be reversed or eliminated, depending on the aperture–lens separation.
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R. G. Wenzel (1987) studied this question.
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