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Perfect optical coherence lattices

Authors :
Sergey A. Ponomarenko
Fei Wang
Pujuan Ma
Zhiheng Xu
Xin Liu
Chunhao Liang
Wei Wen
Yangjian Cai
Source :
Applied Physics Letters. 119:131109
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
AIP Publishing, 2021.

Abstract

We advance and experimentally implement a protocol to generate optical coherence lattices (OCLs) that are not modulated by an envelope field. Here, we dub them perfect OCLs. Structuring the amplitude and phase of an input partially coherent beam in a Fourier plane of an imaging system lies at the heart of our protocol. In the proposed approach, the OCL node profile depends solely on the degree of coherence of the input beam such that, in principle, any lattice structure can be attained via proper manipulations in the Fourier plane. Moreover, any genuine partially coherent source can serve as an input to our lattice generating imaging system. Our results are anticipated to find applications to optical field engineering and multi-target probing among others.

Details

ISSN :
10773118 and 00036951
Volume :
119
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Applied Physics Letters
Accession number :
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