Article | REF: E4046 V1

Binary optics and their application to imagery Self-imaging optics

Authors: Guillaume DRUART, Florence DE LA BARRIERE, Nicolas GUERINEAU

Publication date: January 10, 2019, Review date: April 12, 2021

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4. Continuously self-imaging objects

The self-imaging effect or Talbot effect was generalized by Montgomery in 1967 . who specified the conditions that must be verified by an object, whether periodic or not, in order to be self-imaging.

Particular self-imaging objects were then described by Durnin in 1987 : such components, called continuously self-imaging or non-diffracting, produce a field propagating in space with a very high degree of confinement and no dispersion along the...

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