Rodenburg, Brandon and Mirhosseini, Mohammad and Magaña-Loaiza, Omar S. and Boyd, Robert W. (2014) Experimental generation of an optical field with arbitrary spatial coherence properties. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 31 (6). A51-A55. ISSN 0740-3224. doi:10.1364/josab.31.000a51. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190628-110703620
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Abstract
We describe an experimental technique for generating a quasi-monochromatic field with any arbitrary spatial coherence properties that can be described by the cross-spectral density function, W(r_1,r_2). This is done by using a dynamic binary amplitude grating generated by a digital micromirror device to rapidly alternate between a set of coherent fields, creating an incoherent mix of modes that represent the coherent mode decomposition of the desired W(r_1,r_2). This method was then demonstrated experimentally by interfering two plane waves and then spatially varying the coherence between them. It is then shown that this creates an interference pattern between the two beams whose fringe visibility varies spatially in an arbitrary and prescribed way.
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| Additional Information: | © 2014 Optical Society of America. Received January 8, 2014; revised April 25, 2014; accepted May 8, 2014; posted May 9, 2014 (Doc. ID 203636); published May 23, 2014. We acknowledge Mayukh Lahiri, Joe Vornehm, and Alex Radunsky for helpful discussions. Our work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) InPho program, and O. S. Magaña-Loaiza also acknowledges support from the CONACyT. | |||||||||
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| Issue or Number: | 6 | |||||||||
| Classification Code: | OCIS codes: (030.0030) Coherence and statistical optics; (030.1640) Coherence; (030.4070) Modes; (090.1760) Computer holography; (050.1970) Diffractive optics; (070.6120) Spatial light modulators | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1364/josab.31.000a51 | |||||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20190628-110703620 | |||||||||
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190628-110703620 | |||||||||
| Official Citation: | Brandon Rodenburg, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, and Robert W. Boyd, "Experimental generation of an optical field with arbitrary spatial coherence properties," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31, A51-A55 (2014) | |||||||||
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| ID Code: | 96828 | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | George Porter | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 08 Jul 2019 20:41 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 17:24 |
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