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    Introduction Babinet’s Principle, named after French physicist Jacques Babinet, is a theorem concerning diffraction in the field of optics. The principle states that the diffraction pattern from an opaque body is identical to the pattern from a hole of the same size and shape except for the overall forward beam intensity. Statement of Babinet’s Principle…