Fractional Talbot effect for periodic microlens arrays

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1099-1105

  Besold, Brigitte ^a   Lindlein, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Array illuminator; Fractional Talbot effect; Intensity of foci; Microlens arrays; Propagation of angular spectrum; Self imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000896065     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601301     Document Type: Article

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