Talbot effect of a grating with different kinds of flaws

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2662-2667

  Lu, Yunqing ^a   Zhou, Changhe ^a   Luo, Hongxin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TALBOT EFFECT;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 30844464391     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.002662     Document Type: Article

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