Fractional Talbot effect in phase space: A compact summation formula

Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 169-172

  Banaszek, Konrad ^a   Wódkiewicz, Krzysztof ^a   Schleich, Wolfgang P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FOURIER OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

COHERENT OPTICAL EFFECT; FRESNEL DIFFRACTION; TALBOT EFFECT; WIGNER FUNCTION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0001998554     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.2.000169     Document Type: Article

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