Partially coherent sources with circular coherence

A new class of partially coherent light sources is introduced. At the source plane, they exhibit perfect coherence along any annulus that is concentric to the source center. Between two points at different distances from the center, coherence can be partial or even vanishing. Such sources can be syn...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Santarsiero, Massimo; Martínez Herrero, María Rosario; Maluenda, David; González de Sande, Juan Carlos; Piquero Sanz, Gemma María; Gori, Franco
Format: Article
Publication date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/17860
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/17860
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:535
Schell-Model beams
Cross-Spectral densities
Experimental generation
Propagation
Óptica (Física)
2209.19 Óptica Física
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Summary:A new class of partially coherent light sources is introduced. At the source plane, they exhibit perfect coherence along any annulus that is concentric to the source center. Between two points at different distances from the center, coherence can be partial or even vanishing. Such sources can be synthesized by using a generalized form of van Cittert Zernike theorem where axial sources are used. Beams radiated by this type of source are analyzed at the source plane and upon free propagation for some simple cases. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America