Cartoon of the emergence of edge fringes 

Matlab code 

% Program following the evolution of edge fringes past an opaque knife edge

%

 

clear all

close all

 

vid = VideoWriter('edgePropagation.mp4','MPEG-4');

vid.FrameRate = 60;    % Default 30

vid.Quality = 100;    % Default 75

open(vid);

figure('units','pixels','position',[0 0 1920 1080],'ToolBar','none');

set(0,'defaultfigurecolor',[1 1 1]); % White background

set(gca,'linewidth',7);

 

ydir = -1:0.1:1; % h and ydir define detector surface

h = -10:0.01:10;

hpos = 0:0.01:10;

[H,YDir] = meshgrid(h,ydir);

Det = 0*sin(H).^2+cos(YDir).^2;

 

d2 = 0.0001:0.025:10.0001;

lambda = 1;

nuStep = 0.01;

 

xc=0; yc=-5; zc=0;   % coordinates of box center

Lx=0.1;              % box size x

Ly=10;               % box size y

Lz=4;                % box size z

maskAlp=0.5;         % transparency of box (max=1=opaque)

Cs = [0.625 0.64 0.775];        % Light Phil blue

 

X = [0 0 0 0 0 1; 1 0 1 1 1 1; 1 0 1 1 1 1; 0 0 0 0 0 1];

Y = [0 0 0 0 1 0; 0 1 0 0 1 1; 0 1 1 1 1 1; 0 0 1 1 1 0];

Z = [0 0 1 0 0 0; 0 0 1 0 0 0; 1 1 1 0 1 1; 1 1 1 0 1 1];

 

Xcoords = Lx*(X-0.5) + xc;

Ycoords = Ly*(Y-0.5) + yc;

Zcoords = Lz*(Z-0.5) + zc;

 

lp = [-2 -2 0];

 

for m = 1:length(d2)

    newplot

    hold on

    clear F

    for n=1:length(h)

        nu = h(n)*(2/(lambda*d2(m)))^0.5;

        nu_vector=nu:nuStep:nu+100;

        F(n)=((1+1i)/2)*sum(exp((-1i*pi*(nu_vector).^2)/2));

        Det(:,n)=(abs(max(F))/10000)*((1+1i)/2)*sum(exp((-1i*pi*(nu_vector).^2)/2));

    end

    % Curve tracking the position of the first minimum with distance from

    % the screen

    plot3(hpos,(2*hpos).^0.5,hpos*0,'LineWidth',2,'Color','r');

    % max(F)

    F=abs(F)/abs(max(F));

    

    colormap gray

    cb = colorbar;

    set(cb,'position',[.125 .31 .01 .25],'TickLength',0.0); % Size and position of colorbar

    cb.Color = [0 0 0];

    

    axis off

    % Semitransparent mask

    screen = fill3(Xcoords-0.1,Ycoords,Zcoords,Cs,'FaceAlpha',maskAlp,'LineStyle','none');    % draw cube

    hold on

    if (m > 1)

        aa = pcolor(YDir,-H,abs(Det));

        set(aa,'EdgeColor','none','FaceAlpha',0.92);

        aa.ZData = d2(m) + aa.ZData;

        rotate(aa,[0 1 0],90,[0,0,0]);

        line1 = plot3([-0.8 10],[0 0],[0 0],'color','k','LineWidth',2,'LineStyle','-.');

        xlim([-1 10.01]);

        ylim([-1 1]);

        zlim([-2 2]);

        axis equal

        set(gca,'linewidth',2);

        set(gca, 'Projection','perspective');

        set(gca,'View',[-95,16]);

        

        frame = getframe(gcf);

        writeVideo(vid,frame);

    end

    

    

    hold off;

end

% Output the movie as an mpg file

close(vid);