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Difference between Gaussian and Airy

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What is the difference between a Gaussian beam profile and an Airy disk? Both seem to be pretty much the same to me. An Airy disk looks like this:



And a Gaussian beam profile looks like this:


So they seem more or less the same. What is the difference between the two?

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