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Derivation and discrete implementation for analytic signal of linear canonical transform

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• JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 5, pp.987-992 (2013)
• Pei, Soo-Chang; Lai, Yun-Chiu
• Analytic signal and Hilbert transform associated with linear canonical transform (LCT) have been developed [Opt. Commun.281, 1468 (2008)]. However, the aforementioned paper has some...

Analysis of multidimensional difference-of-Gaussians filters in terms of directly observable parameters

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• JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 5, pp.1002-1012 (2013)
• Cope, Davis; Blakeslee, Barbara; McCourt, Mark E
• The difference-of-Gaussians (DOG) filter is a widely used model for the receptive field of neurons in the retina and lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and is a potential model in...

Behavior of obliquely incident vector Bessel beams at planar interfaces

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• JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1172-1179 (2013)
• Salem, Mohamed A; Bagci, Hakan
• We investigate the behavior of full-vector electromagnetic Bessel beams obliquely incident at an interface between two electrically different media. We employ a Fourier transform...

Incomplete Airy beams: finite energy from a sharp spectral cutoff

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 10, pp.1639-1641 (2013)
• Ring, James D; Howls, Christopher J; Dennis, Mark R
• We present a mathematical analysis of the finite-energy Airy beam with a sharply truncated spectrum, which can be generated by a uniformly illuminated, finite-sized spatial light...

Asymmetric cryptosystem using random binary phase modulation based on mixture retrieval type of Yang–Gu algorithm

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 10, pp.1651-1653 (2013)
• Liu, Wei; Liu, Zhengjun; Liu, Shutian
• We propose an asymmetric optical image encryption scheme that uses an amplitude and phase mixture retrieval of the Yang–Gu algorithm. The encryption process is realized by...

Accelerated single-beam wavefront reconstruction techniques based on relaxation and multiresolution strategies

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 10, pp.1660-1662 (2013)
• Falaggis, Konstantinos; Kozacki, Tomasz; Kujawinska, Malgorzata
• A previous Letter by Pedrini et al. [Opt. Lett.30, 833 (2005)] proposed an iterative single-beam wavefront reconstruction algorithm that uses a sequence of interferograms recorded at...

The Talbot effect: recent advances in classical optics, nonlinear optics, and quantum optics

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• Advances in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 5 Issue 1, pp.83-130 (2013)
• Wen, Jianming; Zhang, Yong; Xiao, Min
• The Talbot effect, also referred to as self-imaging or lensless imaging, is of the phenomena manifested by a periodic repetition of planar field distributions in certain types of wave...