The transmission of electromagnetic energy between two apertures is examined as a function of their sizes, separation, excitation functions, and surface shapes with Fresnel approximations made throughout. Relations are derived which show when it is advantageous to focus the apertures by curving about a spherical surface.
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Robert W. Bickmore (1957) studied this question.
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