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sgd37, First of all, thank you for your interest in the topic and your previous replies. The question, as I mentioned above, is taken from Problem 6.2-3 in Fundamentals of Photonics, 2nd Edition, by Saleh and Teich (and no further information is provided). My undestanding is that the book...

sgd37, You can go for a rigorous treatment of the topic (please check this reference: http://webee.technion.ac.il/courses/046244/files/ComplexPointSource.pdf), which as you can see is not straighforward, but in this case I need just a few sentences explaining how to tackle the problem...

Could a spatial Fourier transform be used? I'd really appreciate if anyone could share his/her thoughts and perhaps provide more elaboration

Note: The question is related to Problem 6.2-3 in the Fundamentals of Photonics book, by Saleh and Teich.

In many books we can find the derivation of Fresnel Equations (TE and the TM reflection and transmission coefficients), but always for the case of a plane wave. How can we go about obtaining the reflection coefficient if the incident light took the form of a beam rather than a plane wave? We...