Veiled Talbot effect
arXiv:2004.04875 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.243901
Abstract
A freely propagating optical field having a periodic transverse spatial profile undergoes periodic axial revivals - a well-known phenomenon known as the Talbot effect or self-imaging. We show here that introducing tight spatio-temporal spectral correlations into an ultrafast pulsed optical field with a periodic transverse spatial profile eliminates all axial dynamics in physical space while revealing a novel space-time Talbot effect that can be observed only when carrying out time-resolved measurements. Indeed, 'time-diffraction' is observed whereupon the temporal profile of the field envelope at a fixed axial plane corresponds to a segment of the spatial propagation profile of a monochromatic field sharing the initial spatial profile and observed at the same axial plane. Time-averaging, which is intrinsic to observing the intensity, altogether veils this effect.
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