Plotting Intensity in Airy Pattern of Telescope - 1D

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How would I come up with an equation (in one dimension), for the airy pattern of a telescope with a given diameter observing at a given wavelength? something that looks like this
[URL]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Airy_Pattern.svg[/URL]
I want to be able to plot Intensity in the image versus the angle from the normal, in one dimension.
 
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