大功率单色LED的空间相干特性

基于van Cittert-Zernike定理,从理论上计算出大功率单色发光二极管(LED)辐出光,在空间中传输后的空间相干性分布。计算结果表明,自发辐射的LED光源其辐射光在空间中传输后,由非相干光变为部分相干光,且其空间相干性与LED芯片的结构有关。实验上采用双缝干涉对LED辐射光的空间相干性进行测量,由干涉条纹的可见度与两点间的相干度之间的关系得出,非相干LED光源的辐射光在传输后为部分相干光。而采用间隔可调的双缝干涉测量两点间的相干度后发现,LED的芯片发光区域决定了其辐射光在传输中的空间相干性分布。理论计算的空间相干性分布与实验测量结果基本吻合。     

Longitudinal pure spatial coherence of a light field with wide frequency and angular spectra

We have observed the longitudinal pure spatial coherence of a light field in an interference experiment when the length of the temporal coherence is significantly smaller than the length of the longitudinal spatial coherence of the light field. We introduce into consideration new spatial and temporal scales of a light field: the length of the coherent (free) run and the coherent time (the time of life) of a wave train.     

The effects of longitudinal spatial coherence of light in interference experiments

The physical conditions needed to observe the effects of longitudinal spatial coherence of emission of an extended thermal source are considered. Results of experiments on observation of interference pulses of longitudinal spatial coherence, performed using a scanning longitudinal shearing Michelson interferometer, are presented. Distinctions between the effects of temporal and longitudinal spatial coherence of light are established. It is shown that the presence of a noncompensated optical layer in one of the arms of the interferometer makes the interference pulses of the temporal and spatial coherence of light shift relative to each other (“recession”).     

Study on the spatial coherence of vortex Gaussian beams passed atmospheric turbulence

In this paper, the spectral degree of coherence formula was derived by using the generalized Huygens–Fresnel principle and the method of Rytov phase structure function quadratic approximation. The spatial coherence of vortex Gaussian beams passed atmospheric turbulence was studied. It showed that the spatial coherence was mainly affected by the coherence of light source, the number of topological charges and the transmission distance. The distance of transmission was farther, the spatial coherence of beam was better. The number of topological charges were more, the spatial coherence of beam was better. In a certain transmission distance, the coherence of light source was better, the spatial coherence of beam was worse. In addition, there were coherent vortexes which spectral degree of coherence was zero after the partially coherent vortex beams getting through atmospheric turbulence transmission.     

Longitudinal purely spatial coherence of a light field

The effects of longitudinal purely spatial coherence of light and the results of observation of these effects in an interference experiment are considered under the condition that the length of temporal coherence l _c is considerably smaller than the length of longitudinal spatial coherence ρ_‖ of the field. It is shown that, for l _c ? ρ_‖, the longitudinal purely spatial coherence of the light field in fact governs the coherence of the wave train in the process of its propagation. The length and the time of coherent (“free”) path of the wave train are considered as new spatial and temporal scales of a partially coherent light field.     

Role of spatial coherence in Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts

We present a theory for Goos-H?nchen (GH) and Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shifts for beams of light with arbitrary spatial coherence. By applying the well-known theory of partial spatial coherence, we can calculate explicitly spatial and angular GH and IF shifts for completely polarized beams of any shape and spatial coherence. For the specific case of a Gauss-Schell source, we find that only the angular part of GH and IF shifts is affected by the spatial coherence of the beam. A physical explanation of our results is given.     

Influence of longitudinal spatial coherence on the signal of a scanning interferometer

The physical conditions for observing the longitudinal spatial coherence of light of an extended thermal source in interference experiments are defined. For experimental verification of these conditions a Michelson interferometer with a longitudinal scanning mirror was used. The influence of the longitudinal spatial coherence of thermal light on a fringe envelope is demonstrated experimentally.     

Coherence requirement for partially coherent correlation detection

The coherence requirement for correlation detection is determined using the theory of partially coherent light. It is shown that the requirement for temporal coherence strongly dependes on the spatial frequency and the spatial extension of the target (i.e., space bandwidth product). However, the spatial coherence requirement depends only on the extension of the target. Some numerical results are also presented.     

部分相干光经柱面球差透镜聚焦所产生的焦移

利用Collins公式得出光强均匀部分相干光经柱面球差透镜聚焦后的轴上光强分布，并通过数值模拟的方法研究了入射光的菲涅耳数、相干度和透镜的球差对轴上点光强分布的影响.结果显示，当菲涅耳数较小、空间相干度较小的部分相干光经无球差透镜聚焦时，轴上点光强分布会产生焦移现象，而当部分相干光被球差透镜聚焦时，也会有焦移现象产生.     

Speckle shearography using a multiband light source

Applications for optical metrology usually use lasers as light sources, because of the excellent spatial and temporal coherence of the emitted light. By comparison, the demands of speckle shearography concerning the coherence of the light source are low. This enables certain white-light sources to be an option.

In this paper, the feasibility of low coherence shearography is shown. For this purpose an experimental setup is designed, composed of a mercury arc lamp, a spatial filter and a Michelson interferometer. With respect to speckle shearography, important characteristics of the light source are described and the mercury arc lamp is shown to be suitable. Finally, some experimental investigations of an object under load are presented.     

Analysis of non-ergodic behaviour in spatio-temporal coherence properties of speckle light

Spatio-temporal coherence properties of light scattered by rough surfaces that leads to speckle fluctuations are analysed. It is demonstrated that the scattered light is non-ergodic with the disorder due to the scattering process. Although the mutual coherence matrix vanishes with isotropic polarization fluctuations, it is shown that spatio-temporal coherence properties can be described with interference experiments that can be obtained between different speckles of the scattered light. For non-singular scattering processes, the maximal value of the modulus of the Wolf degree of coherence is analysed in the spatial time domain. This approach is also applied to totally unpolarized incident light with an isotropic and spatially independent scattering process. The mean value and the standard deviation of the Wolf degree of coherence are then determined from the coherence properties of the incident light.     

Partially coherent multiple-beam interference

The general formula for multiple-beam interference due to regular slit arrays illuminated with partially coherent quasi-monochromatic light is derived. The correlation functions chosen for partially coherent light assume Gaussian, sinc and besinc forms of correlation. The intensity distribution in the interference patterns is presented and discussed as a function of the spatial coherence condition. It is shown that spatial coherence of the illumination largely affects the features of multiple-beam interference patterns.     

部分相干光被环形透镜聚焦而产生的焦移

 从理论上研究部分相干光被一环形透镜聚焦,在焦点附近的轴上点的光强分布。研究结果表明,当部分相干光被一环形透镜聚焦时,最大聚焦光强不在几何焦点,而是位于透镜与几何焦点之间,出现焦移现象。并且,焦移量不仅依赖于透镜外半径的菲涅耳数,还依赖于部分相干光的空间相干度和中心拦截比。透镜的菲涅耳数越小,焦移越大;部分相干光的空间相干度越低,焦移越大。当菲涅耳数一定时,环形透镜的中心拦截比越大,焦移越大;当空间相干度很小时,情况就变得比较复杂。     

Adaptive Optics as a Spatial Coherence Modifier

The possibility of adaptive optics as a spatial coherence modifier is discussed. The initial field to be corrected is produced in such a way that a quasi-monochromatic plane wave of light is incident on a moving diffuser plate, so that it is spatially partially coherent. It is shown that adaptive optics serves to enhance the spatial coherence of the resultant field and that the magnitude of the enhancement depends on the spatial coherence of the initial field to be corrected. The results are illustrated by numerical examples based on an idealized low-order adaptive optics system.     

Relationship between spectral properties and spatial coherence properties in one-dimensional free fields

Some consequences of a recently derived relationship between the spectral properties and the spatial coherence properties of a stationary optical field are studied for the case when the field is one-dimensional. It is found that the spectrum may be determined from the knowledge of the spatial coherence of the field at all pairs of points that lie within an interval whose length is at least as great as the coherence length of the light.     

A contrast variation of image speckle intensity under illumination of partially coherent light

Speckle patterns are formed by completely and partially coherent light at the image plane of a diffusing object. The general formula is derived for the contrast variation of the image speckle intensity distribution as a function of the spatial coherence of the illuminating light, the amplitude point-spread function of the optical imaging system and the statistical characteristic of the diffusing object. The effect of spatial coherence of the illuminating light on the contrast variations of the image speckle intensity distribution is theoretically evaluated under various statistical conditions of the diffusing object. The theoretical results are confirmed experimentally.     

同步辐射X光束空间相干性的物理分析

从量子力学的不确定原理出发，推导出光源相干性和光束相干性的关系，并应用所得的结论南步辐射Ｘ光束的空间相干性进行物理分析，讨论了Ｘ光相干我学实验对Ｘ光束的一些要求。     

Effect of spatial coherence on radiation forces acting on a Rayleigh dielectric sphere

We show that the radiation forces (RFs) on a Rayleigh dielectric sphere induced by a partially coherent light beam are greatly affected by the spatial coherence. We find that the magnitude of the RFs greatly decreases as the spatial coherence decreases and derive an inequality for the required correlation width sigma(0) (i.e., the spatial coherence of the beam) to stably trap the particles.     

Spatial information transmission using orthogonal mutual coherence coding

We use the coherence of a light beam to encode spatial information. We apply this principle to obtain spatial superresolution in a limited aperture system. The method is based on shaping the mutual intensity function of the illumination beam in a set of orthogonal distributions, each one carrying the information for a different frequency bandpass or spatial region of the input object. The coherence coding is analogous to time multiplexing but with multiplexing time slots that are given by the coherence time of the illumination beam. Most images are static during times much longer than this coherence time, and thus the increase of resolution in our system is obtained without any noticeable cost.     

Surface plasmons modulate the spatial coherence of light in Young's interference experiment

It is shown how surface plasmons that travel between the slits in Young's interference experiment can change the state of spatial coherence of the field that is radiated by the two apertures. Surprisingly, the coherence can both be increased and decreased, depending on the slit separation distance. This results in a modulation of the visibility of the interference fringes. Since many properties of a light field-such as its spectrum, polarization, and directionality - may change on propagation and are dependent on the spatial coherence of the source, our results suggest that the use of surface plasmons provides a new way to alter or even tailor the statistical properties of a light field.