:The page means by " cylindrical wave " a wavefront that is spreading on a cylidrical surface.
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Their use is discouraged, because they wrongly assume cylindrical waves which would require perfect line sources for reproduction.
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The experimental results demonstrated focusing of an incident cylindrical wave within an octave bandwidth and over an electrically short area; suggestive of near-field focusing.
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If the width of the slits is small enough ( less than the wavelength of the laser light ), the slits diffract the light into cylindrical waves.
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A long slit of infinitesimal width which is illuminated by light diffracts the light into a series of circular waves and the wavefront which emerges from the slit is a cylindrical wave of uniform intensity.
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The Hankel functions are used to express outward-and inward-propagating cylindrical wave solutions of the cylindrical wave equation, respectively ( or vice versa, depending on the sign convention for the frequency ).
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The Hankel functions are used to express outward-and inward-propagating cylindrical wave solutions of the cylindrical wave equation, respectively ( or vice versa, depending on the sign convention for the frequency ).
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The Hankel functions of the first and second kind are used to express outward-and inward-propagating cylindrical wave solutions of the cylindrical wave equation, respectively ( or vice versa, depending on the sign convention for the frequency ).
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The Hankel functions of the first and second kind are used to express outward-and inward-propagating cylindrical wave solutions of the cylindrical wave equation, respectively ( or vice versa, depending on the sign convention for the frequency ).
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This third version was retitled " On gravitational waves ", and, following Robertson's suggestion of a transformation to cylindrical coordinates, presented what are now called Einstein Rosen cylindrical waves ( these are locally isometric to plane waves ).