“…Since then, the FrFT has been found important applications in signal processing, optical image encryption, beam shaping and beam analysis [14][15][16][17][18]. Recently, the FrFT of various beams has been widely investigated, such as the flattened Gaussian beams [19], elliptical Gaussian beams [20], partially coherent Gaussian Schell beams [21,22] [23,24], Lorentz-Gauss beams [25], and Ince-Gauss beams [26,27]. However, to the best of our knowledge, the propagation characteristics of the Airy beams have not been studied through an ABCD system [28] with a hard-edge rectangular aperture.…”