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By using a coordinate transformation based on Gaussian-beam theory, we can apply efficient fast Fourier transform (FFT) computational methods to diffraction problems involving spherically diverging or converging waves as well as to quasi-collimated beams of radiation.
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Sziklas et al. (1974) studied this question.
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