calculate spacing of airy rings

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Dear list,

I have to pick your brains on a maybe trivial question:

How do I calculate the spacing between airy rings for a given objective NA, pinhole size (and shape, we are having hexagonal pinhole) and wavelength.
Or is there some (Matlab) code to calculate the whole pattern?

Thanks!

Jens