“…Due to the cheap equipment needed and ease of the use of the Talbot effect, it has gained many applications in optics and interdisciplinary areas, such as in optical testing and metrology 3 , Talbot array illumination 4 , atmospheric turbulence studies 5 , singular optics including characterization 6 and multiplication 7 of vortex beams. Although the Talbot effect was initially observed in optics, in recent decades, it attracted the interest of many researchers in other areas of physics, and similar processes have also been reported with other physical waves, such as non-classical light 8 and atomic waves 9 – 11 , X-ray phase imaging 12 , Bose-Einstein condensates 13 , metamaterials 14 , exciton polaritons 15 , surface plasmonic 16 , coupled lasers 17 and waveguide arrays 18 systems. The Talbot effect was also reported for mechanical waves such as water waves 19 and acoustic waves 20 .…”