Young’s interference pattern formed with symmetrical partially coherent sources

Zu-Han Gu

doi:10.1117/12.613272

23 August 2005 Young's interference pattern formed with symmetrical partially coherent sources

Zu-Han Gu

Proceedings Volume 5878, Advanced Characterization Techniques for Optics, Semiconductors, and Nanotechnologies II; 58780X (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.613272
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

It has been shown not long ago by Emil Wolf ^(1-2), the Young's interference pattern is formed by partially coherent light. The coherent properties of interfering beams from two pinholes after they passed through a moving diffuser are determined by the correlation function of the heights of the diffuser surface and speed with which the diffuser is moving. We report the recent experimental results displaying the Young's interference of light produced by a pair of symmetric Collett-Wolf partially coherent sources. The experimental results are compared with the results of rigorous computer simulations.

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Zu-Han Gu "Young's interference pattern formed with symmetrical partially coherent sources", Proc. SPIE 5878, Advanced Characterization Techniques for Optics, Semiconductors, and Nanotechnologies II, 58780X (23 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.613272

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