The talbot effect: Recent advances in classical optics, nonlinear optics, and quantum optics

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-130

  Wen, Jianming ^a,b   Zhang, Yong ^a   Xiao, Min ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 84875821539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.5.000083     Document Type: Article

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