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ADVANCES IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 83-130Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.5.000083
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB921804]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11004097, 61222503, 11274162]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [1095021339, 1124021319]
- New Century Excellent Talents in University
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
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The Talbot effect, also referred to as self-imaging or lensless imaging, is of the phenomena manifested by a periodic repetition of planar field distributions in certain types of wave fields. This phenomenon is finding applications not only in optics, but also in a variety of research fields, such as acoustics, electron microscopy, plasmonics, x ray, and Bose-Einstein condensates. In optics, self-imaging is being explored particularly in image processing, in the production of spatial-frequency filters, and in optical metrology. In this article, we give an overview of recent advances on the effect from classical optics to non-linear optics and quantum optics. Throughout this review article there is an effort to clearly present the physical aspects of the self-imaging phenomenon. Mathematical formulations are reduced to the indispensable ones. Readers who prefer strict mathematical treatments should resort to the extensive list of references. Despite the rapid progress on the subject, new ideas and applications of Talbot self-imaging are still expected in the future. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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