Non-paraxial Talbot effect in one-dimensional gratings with period comparable to the wavelength

E. Arrieta, N. Bolognini, C. O. Torres


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V50 - N2 / 2017 Ordinario

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119-126

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http://doi.org/10.7149/OPA.50.2.49019

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English

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Talbot effect, amplitude grating, non paraxial optics

Abstract

The Talbot effect is a diffractive phenomenon which was found since its inception in the Gaussian optics, but when the period of the object is comparable with the wavelength is considered entering its non-paraxial regime. There, it has attracted interest for its applications related to the design of objects and their restorative effects posing in damaged gratings on this scale. In this contribution a study of this phenomenon at level non-paraxial (metaxial) is presented by using scalar diffraction theory in plane waves representation for periodic transversal fields. To this end, a one-dimensional amplitude grating of period p is used which is illuminated by a monochromatic plane wave of wavelength λ where p ranges between 1,5 λ and 4,2 λ.

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