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Talbot effect of a grating with different kinds of flaws
Yunqing Lu1, Changhe Zhou, Hongxin Luo
1Information Optics Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Academia Sinica, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO. Box 800-211, Shanghai 201800, China.
Abstract:
The Talbot effect of a grating with different kinds of flaws is analyzed with the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The FDTD method can show the exact near-field distribution of different flaws in a high-density grating, which is impossible to obtain with the conventional Fourier transform method. The numerical results indicate that if a grating is perfect, its Talbot imaging should also be perfect; if the grating is distorted, its Talbot imaging will also be distorted. Furthermore, we evaluate high-density gratings by detecting the near-field distribution with the scanning near-field optical microscopy technique. Experimental results are also given.

