Optical diffraction on fractals
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 33 (5) , 3566-3569
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.33.3566
Abstract
Diffraction experiments are performed on two-dimensional deterministic fractals such as Cantor bars or Vicsek fractals. We show that the intensity I(q) which is scattered at a wave vector q by a fractal grating is simply its optical Fourier transform. This allows a direct determination of the Hausdorff dimension D and of other geometrical characteristics of fractals. Applications of this analog method to experimentally obtained aggregates are discussed.Keywords
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