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Generation of Talbot-like fields

Optics 2022-06-20 v1

Abstract

We present an integral of diffraction based on particular eigenfunctions of the Laplacian in two dimensions. We show how to propagate some fields, in particular a Bessel field, a superposition of Airy beams, both over the square root of the radial coordinate, and show how to construct a field that reproduces itself periodically in propagation, i.e., a field that renders the Talbot effect. Additionally, it is shown that the superposition of Airy beams produces self-focusing.

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@article{arxiv.2104.00070,
  title  = {Generation of Talbot-like fields},
  author = {Jorge A. Anaya-Contreras and Arturo Zúñiga-Segundo and D. Sánchez-de-la-Llave and Héctor M. Moya-Cessa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00070},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures

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