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Fractional Talbot effect in phase space: A compact summation formula

Konrad Banaszek, Krzysztof Wodkiewicz, Wolfgang P. Schleich

physics.opticsarXiv:physics/9711004

Abstract

A phase space description of the fractional Talbot effect, occurring in a one-dimensional Fresnel diffraction from a periodic grating, is presented. Using the phase space formalism a compact summation formula for the Wigner function at rational multiples of the Talbot distance is derived. The summation formula shows that the fractional Talbot image in the phase space is generated by a finite sum of spatially displaced Wigner functions of the source field.

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