Quasicontinuous pseudoimages in sinusoidal grating imaging using an extended light source

When a polychromatic light illuminates a grating, an achromatic and continuous self-imaging regime is produced, what means that Talbot planes are eliminated. In this work, we investigate the existence of this continuous regime for generalized grating imaging. We have found that amplitude gratings wi...

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Autores: Sánchez Brea, Luis Miguel, Alonso Fernández, José, Bernabeu Martínez, Eusebio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/51202
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51202
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:535
Diffraction Gratings
Illumination
Óptica (Física)
2209.19 Óptica Física
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Sumario:When a polychromatic light illuminates a grating, an achromatic and continuous self-imaging regime is produced, what means that Talbot planes are eliminated. In this work, we investigate the existence of this continuous regime for generalized grating imaging. We have found that amplitude gratings with sinusoidal profiles may form, under monochromatic and partially coherent illumination, pseudoimages whose contrast or modulation present a smooth dependence on the gap between the two gratings.