Figure 5: Conditional fringe visibilities as a function of Talbot order L/LT.
From: Coherence in the presence of absorption and heating in a molecule interferometer
The parameters are the same as in Fig. 4a. The long-dashed red line shows the visibility for molecules that passed the laser grating without absorbing. The dashed-orange, dotted blue and dash-dotted purple lines show the visibility for the case of one, two and three absorbed photons, respectively. Negative visibilities correspond to fringe patterns with a phase shifted by π. The solid black line shows the incoherent sum of all interferograms associated with the different absorption orders, as given by equation (5).
