Comments on "New plane wave spectrum formulations for the near-fields of circular and strip apertures"

The above paper (see ibid., vol.24, p.438-449, July (1976)) applies a plane wave spectrum (PWS) formulation to diffraction problems involving circular and strip apertures and gives new results in terms of Fresnel integrals for the electric field near the aperture. In this note, a discussion of those new results is presented; conclusions are: As a technique for solving electromagnetic aperture diffraction problems, the particular PWS described gives inadequate results, especially for near-fields, and by using the standard Keller's formula, a geometrical theory of diffraction (GTD) solution for the diffracted field from a circular aperture is obtained, but the solution does not in general agree with the one given