Synthesis and characterization of complex partially coherent beams

Tatiana Alieva; Alejandro Cámara; José A. Rodrigo

doi:10.1117/12.2083773

13 March 2015 Synthesis and characterization of complex partially coherent beams

Tatiana Alieva, Alejandro Cámara, José A. Rodrigo

Proceedings Volume 9369, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering II; 93690K (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083773
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Partially coherent light provides attractive benefits for different applications in microscopy, astronomy, telecommunications, optical lithography, etc. However, design and generation of partially coherent beams with desirable properties is challenging. Moreover, the experimental characterization of the spatial coherence is a difficult problem involving second-order statistics represented by four-dimensional functions that cannot be directly measured and analyzed. We discuss the techniques for design and generation of partially coherent structurally stable beams and the recently developed phase-space tomography methods supported by simple experimental setups for practical quantitative characterization of partially coherent light spatial structure, including its local coherence properties.

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Tatiana Alieva, Alejandro Cámara, and José A. Rodrigo "Synthesis and characterization of complex partially coherent beams", Proc. SPIE 9369, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering II, 93690K (13 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083773

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