Temporal Talbot effect in free space
arXiv:2103.12677 · doi:10.1364/OL.425635
Abstract
The temporal Talbot effect refers to the periodic revivals of a pulse train propagating in a dispersive medium, and is a temporal analog of the spatial Talbot effect with group-velocity dispersion in time replacing diffraction in space. Because of typically large temporal Talbot lengths, this effect has been observed to date in only single-mode fibers, rather than with freely propagating fields in bulk dispersive media. Here we demonstrate for the first time the temporal Talbot effect in free space by employing dispersive space-time wave packets, whose spatio-temporal structure induces group-velocity dispersion of controllable magnitude and sign in free space.
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