Controllable energy angular spectrum method

TL;DR

This paper introduces a controllable energy angular spectrum method that enhances diffraction calculations by optimizing spectral energy boundaries, reducing sampling requirements, and maintaining accuracy in near and far field simulations.

Contribution

It proposes a novel spectral energy analysis approach to improve angular spectrum diffraction calculations with higher efficiency and controllability.

Findings

Reduces sampling requirements while maintaining accuracy

Provides an optimized frequency boundary for controllable energy

Improves diffraction calculation performance

Abstract

A controllable energy method, which considers the undersampling issue of the transfer function and valid spectral energy of a source signal, is proposed to implement angular spectrum diffraction calculation in near and far fields. The proposed method provides an optimized frequency boundary $f_{CE}$ within which it always keeps controllable energy to be diffracted. The controllable energy angular spectrum method significantly reduces the number of samples while having the same accuracy as previous angular spectrum methods, implying a higher calculation efficiency. The new perspective of analyzing spectral energy is shown to improve the performance of relevant diffraction calculations.