Realization of optical carpets in the talbot and talbot-lau configurations

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20966-20974

  Case, William B ^a,b   Tomandl, Mathias ^a   Deachapunya, Sarayut ^a,c   Arndt, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BURAPHA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION;

EXPERIMENTAL VISUALIZATION; INCOHERENT ILLUMINATION; LENS-LESS IMAGING; NEAR FIELDS; PLANE WAVE ILLUMINATION; WAVE PATTERNS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 70849134020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020966     Document Type: Article

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