Some Properties of Fresnel Images of a Square Wave Amplitude Grating

Abstract
The self-imaging phenomenon of a square wave binary amplitude grating is studied. The intensity distributions in the Fresnel diffraction image planes lying at distances z = (M -1/4)d 2/u from the grating illuminated by a plane wave are calculated. It is found that these images are very similar to the object structure. As a consequence, some potential applications are proposed.

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