Characterization of the coherence properties of different optical sources

A Celine Kavida; A Roberts

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Characterization of the coherence properties of different optical sources

A Celine Kavida, A Roberts

Applied Physics B Lasers and Optics | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1007/s00340-017-6769-9

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Abstract

Non-interferometric phase-space tomography is used to characterize the spatial coherence properties of scalar quasi-monochromatic partially coherent optical fields. Three sources were investigated and characteristic projections through the correlation functions determined. It was seen that a single-mode fibre-coupled source exhibited a much longer coherence length than a multi-mode fibre-coupled source. Both sources exhibited a high degree of symmetry. A collimated light emitted diode, on the other hand, was shown to have a short spatial coherence length and clear asymmetries were evident.

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (Project No. DP0557505). The authors would like to thank Nicoleta Dragomir, Chanh Tran, Keith Nugent and Rob Scholten for useful discussions.