The extension of the Talbot effect to incorporate noncoherent light is
known as the Lau effect.. Here, we employ the Lau effect for substant
ially reducing the influence of binary multiplicative noise on periodi
c patterns. The method proposed may be lensless, The coherence theory
of our proposal and experimental verifications are included. (C) 1998
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