Fig. 1. Schematic of a general photon sieve with collimated incident light beam

Fig. 2. Central 26 pinhole rings of the photon sieve

Fig. 3. Comparison of the diffracted fields on the focal plane for the pinholes in the 13th ring zone. (a) Real part of the complex diffracted fields; (b) imaginary part of the complex diffracted fields

Fig. 4. Intensity distribution calculated from the outer part of the photon sieve using pinhole ring model. (a) Normalized intensity distribution calculated by the pinhole ring model (the base-10 logarithm); (b) relative error distribution of the filed calculated by the pinhole ring model and the traditional pinhole model

Fig. 5. Normalized intensity distribution on the focal plane of the whole photon sieve calculated by the pinhole ring model (the base-10 logarithm)

Table 1. Designed parameters of large caliber photon sieve