Redundancy in Cantor diffractals.

ABSTRACT

Cantor diffractals are waves that have encountered a Cantor grating. In this paper, we report an important property of Cantor diffractals, namely that of redundancy. We observe that the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern comprises of several bands, each containing complete information about the fractal aperture. This redundancy allows for a faithful reconstruction of the Cantor grating by an inverse Fourier transformation of an arbitrary band.