Efecto Talbot Unidimensional y Bidimensional

In this paper, we show some experimental results obtained by us in the summer of 2014 in IPICyT to prove the occurrence of the Talbot effect. This effect is due to the constructive interference which leads to the appearance of clear images at a certain distance behind a periodic object illuminated by a light source. The distance of appearance is known as the Talbot distance and provides the spatial scale of this self-imaging phenomenon. We used onedimensional periodic and quasi-periodic gratings as well as two-dimensional hexagonal ones which have been produced by using the Adobe Illustrator graphical program at calculated spatial frequencies that allowed the observation of the effect within the laboratory. The gratings have been illuminated with a He-Ne laser of wavelength 633 nm (red) for which we determined the distance at which a clear self-image of the gratings could be obtained.