Figure 6
(a) Solid lines: the profile deformations required to turn Gaussian amplitude distributions (dashed lines) of variable ω [equation (7)] into the same PSF (b), consisting of three separated blocks. As we did in the top-hat PSF simulations, we used the values L = 400 mm, α = 1° and the Gaussian amplitude graphs have arbitrary units. The full range of the profiles is not shown in order to draw attention to the shaped center, where the beam intensity is relevant: the omitted parts correspond to the tails of the Gaussian and simply consist of straight (non-shaping) segments. The arrows mark the profile kinks needed to make the gaps in the PSF. |