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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Liang, Chunhao
• Liu, Xin
• Xu, Zhiheng
• Wang, Fei
• Wen, Wei
• Ponomarenko, Sergey A.
• Cai, Yangjian
• Ma, Pujuan

Titel

Perfect optical coherence lattices

Ist Teil von

• Applied physics letters, 2021-09, Vol.119 (13)

Ort / Verlag

Melville: American Institute of Physics

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

AIP Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.