Robustness and spatial multiplexing via diffractal architectures

Opt Express. 2015 Nov 2;23(22):28471-8. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.028471.

Abstract

When plane waves diffract through fractal-patterned apertures, the resulting far-field profiles or diffractals also exhibit iterated, self-similar features. Here we show that this specific architecture enables robust signal transmission and spatial multiplexing: arbitrary parts of a diffractal contain sufficient information to recreate the entire original sparse signal.