Fresnel Images, Coherence Theory And The Lau Effect

Ronald Sudol

doi:10.1117/12.965650

10 February 1981 Fresnel Images, Coherence Theory And The Lau Effect

Ronald Sudol

Proceedings Volume 0240, Periodic Structures, Gratings, Moire Patterns, and Diffraction Phenomena I; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965650
Event: 24th Annual Technical Symposium, 1980, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The Lau effect is observed when a double-grating pair is illuminated with spatially incoherent light. It would be of interest to generalize this experiment to include illuminating fields which have some degree of spatial coherence. To gain some insight into the changes the intensity distribution undergoes as the degree of spatial coherence is varied, we consider the special case of completely coherent illumination. This particular problem is easily discussed in terms of Fresnel images where it is found that the Fresnel image planes are defined by distances which are identical to the allowed grating separations in the incoherent Lau experiment. This suggests an interesting relationship between the nature of the fields in the incoherent Lau experiment and those in the coherent formation of Fresnel images.

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Ronald Sudol "Fresnel Images, Coherence Theory And The Lau Effect", Proc. SPIE 0240, Periodic Structures, Gratings, Moire Patterns, and Diffraction Phenomena I, (10 February 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965650

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