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Perfect optical coherence lattices
- Source :
- Applied Physics Letters. 119:131109
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2021.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
business.industry
Plane (geometry)
02 engineering and technology
Degree of coherence
Optical field
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
010309 optics
symbols.namesake
Optics
Fourier transform
Lattice (order)
0103 physical sciences
symbols
Node (circuits)
0210 nano-technology
business
Envelope (waves)
Coherence (physics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10773118 and 00036951
- Volume :
- 119
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Physics Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........406f90af1dcbd6faa91a5eceb17cc222