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Limited diffraction beams have a large depth of field.1 They could have applications in medical imaging,2 tissue characterization,3 volumetric imaging,4 estimation of transverse velocity of blood flow,5 nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of materials,6 2D and 3D high frame rate imaging with simple hardware,5,7−8 as well as other physics related areas such as electromagnetics9 and optics.10 In this presentation, limited diffraction beams are used as carriers to transfer signals in parallel over a large distance.
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Lu, Jy. (1997). High-Speed Transmission of Images with Limited Diffraction Beams. In: Lees, S., Ferrari, L.A. (eds) Acoustical Imaging. Acoustical Imaging, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8588-0_40
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