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Abstract
The Kirchhoff-Huyghens diffraction integral is generalized to arbitrary time-dependent fields and used to analyse the diffraction of focus wave modes by circular and rectangular plane apertures. It is shown that their diffraction by a slit is still an open problem. The physical implications of these results are discussed.