Second-order Talbot self-imaging with pseudothermal light

Xin Bing Song, Jun Xiong, Xiangdong Zhang, Kaige Wang*

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Abstract

The second-order Talbot effect with thermal light is both theoretically and experimentally investigated. Three kinds of experimental schemes are performed, one of which reproduces the classical Talbot self-imaging and the others show plentiful self-imaging effects, in which an object with a periodic structure can be enlarged or diminished. The theoretical analysis, in good agreement with the experimental results, testifies that the specificity in the second-order Talbot effect refers to the joint diffraction of two correlated beams.

Original languageEnglish
Article number033823
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume82
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Sept 2010
Externally publishedYes

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