Ultra high-resolution measurements of amplitude and phase field distributions emerging from a 1-μm-period amplitude grating are presented and discussed. In the axial direction periodically repeated features are found, whose origins are the Talbot effect within the Fresnel diffraction regime. Filtering diffraction orders in the back focal plane of the observing objective provides specific Talbot images and allows to intuitively understand the role of diffraction orders in this phenomenon.
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