{"id":1326,"date":"2019-11-15T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hajim.wdev.rochester.edu\/optics\/alonso\/?page_id=1326"},"modified":"2021-09-11T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T14:26:39","slug":"optical-coherence-description-and-measurement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/optics\/alonso\/publications\/optical-coherence-description-and-measurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical coherence: description and measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent work in our group has focused on simple methods for measuring spatial coherence that do not require wavefront division. In particular, we recently proposed an approach where an obstacle is inserted at the test plane, and the difference of irradiance measurements with and without this obstacle gives access to the spatial coherence at all pairs of points whose centroid is the obstacle&#8217;s centroid. Our group has also published theoretical work on the propagation of partially coherent fields. (See also section on Wigner functions.)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Simple non-interferometric methods for the measurement of spatial coherence<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Journal articles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/OE.427734\">S.A. Wadood, K. Liang, Y. Zhou, J. Yang, M.A. Alonso, X.F. Qian, T. Malhotra, S.M. Hashemi Rafsanjani, A.N. Jordan, R.W. Boyd, and N.A. Vamivakas, &#8220;Experimental demonstration of superresolution of partially coherent light sources using parity sorting,&#8221; Opt. Express\u00a0<strong>29<\/strong>, 22034-22043 (2021).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/OE.26.008301\">K.A. Sharma, G. Costello, E. V\u00e9lez-Ju\u00e1rez, T.G. Brown, and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Measuring vector field correlations using diffraction,&#8221; Opt. Express\u00a0<strong>26<\/strong>, 8301-8313 (2018).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/OE.24.016099\">K.A. Sharma, T.G. Brown, and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Phase-space approach to lensless measurements of optical field correlations,&#8221; Opt. Express\u00a0<strong>24<\/strong>, 16099-16110 (2016).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1364\/OL.39.004927\">J.K. Wood, K.A. Sharma, S. Cho, T.G. Brown, and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Using shadows for measuring spatial coherence,&#8221; Opt. Lett.\u00a0<strong>39<\/strong>, 4927-4930 (2014).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1364\/OL.37.002724\">S. Cho, M.A. Alonso, and T.G. Brown, &#8220;Measurement of spatial coherence through diffraction from a transparent mask with a phase discontinuity&#8221; Opt. Lett.\u00a0<strong>37<\/strong>, 2724-2726 (2012).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1364\/SRS.2011.SMA5\">S. Cho and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Ambiguity function and phase space tomography for nonparaxial fields,&#8221; J. Opt. Soc. Am. A\u00a0<strong>28<\/strong>, 897-902 (2011).<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Conference proceedings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/WIO.2012.6488913\">M.A. Alonso, S. Cho and T.G. Brown, &#8220;Simple methods for measuring spatial coherence and their relation to the Wigner function,&#8221; IEEE Proceedings of the 11th Euro-American Workshop on Information Optics, 1-3 (2012).<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mathematical descriptions of the propagation of spatial coherence<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Journal articles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1364\/OE.20.002858\">M. Marasinghe, M. Premaratne, D. Paganin, and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Coherence vortices in Mie scattered partially coherent fields,&#8221; Opt. Express&nbsp;<strong>20<\/strong>, 2858-2875 (2012).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.optics.rochester.edu\/workgroups\/alonso\/PubCoh.html\">J.C. Petruccelli, N.J. Moore, and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Two methods for modeling the propagation of the coherence and polarization properties of nonparaxial fields,&#8221; Opt. Commun.&nbsp;<strong>283<\/strong>, 4457-4466 (2010).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1364\/JOSAA.26.002012\">J.C. Petruccelli and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Propagation of nonparaxial partially coherent fields across interfaces using generalized radiometry,&#8221; J. Opt. Soc. Am. A&nbsp;<strong>26<\/strong>, 2012-2022 (2009).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.optcom.2007.12.054\">M.A. Alonso and E. Wolf, &#8220;The cross-spectral density matrix of a planar, electromagnetic stochastic source as a correlation matrix,&#8221; Opt. Commun.&nbsp;<strong>281<\/strong>, 2393-2396 (2008).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1364\/JOSAA.25.001395\">J.C. Petruccelli and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Ray-based propagation of the cross-spectral density,&#8221; J. Opt. Soc. Am. A&nbsp;<strong>25<\/strong>, 1395-1405 (2008).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1364\/JOSAA.24.002590\">J.C. Petruccelli and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Propagation of partially coherent fields through planar dielectric boundaries using angle-impact Wigner functions I. Two dimensions,&#8221; J. Opt. Soc. Am. A&nbsp;<strong>24<\/strong>, 2590-2603 (2007).<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/09500340500419821\">M.A. Alonso, O. Korotkova, and E. Wolf, &#8220;Propagation of the electric correlation matrix and the van Cittert-Zernike theorem for random electromagnetic fields,&#8221; J. Mod. Opt.&nbsp;<strong>53<\/strong>, 969-978 (2006).<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Letter to the Editor in Physics Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1063\/1.3366225\">E. Wolf, W.H. Knox, and M.A. Alonso, &#8220;Spatial coherence from ducks,&#8221; Physics Today&nbsp;<strong>63<\/strong>, March 2010, p. 11.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent work in our group has focused on simple methods for measuring spatial coherence that do not require wavefront division. 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