“…Additionally, as proposed by Wen and Breazeale [17], the hard aperture function T (x 0 , y 0 ) can be expanded into a sum of finite complex Gaussian functions, i.e. where A , B denote the expansion and Gaussian coefficients, respectively, which can be obtained by optimisation computation [17,18] and are given in [17] (where N ¼ 10). Let us assume that a space-time-dependent Gaussian-shaped pulse incident upon the rectangular aperture takes the form…”