Resolution improvement of digital holographic images based on angular multiplexing with incoherent beams in orthogonal polarization states

We present a method to improve the resolution of digital holographic images based on angular multiplexing with incoherent beams from two orthogonal polarized components of natural light. Two incoherent subholograms are synchronously recorded by two pairs of incoherent object waves and reference waves with orthogonal polarization states, in which the object is illuminated by two incoherent beams from different directions. The increase in resolution is obtained through phase correction and superposition of two reconstructed object waves. Experimental results show that the resolution and quality of the reconstructed image can be effectively improved.     

Waveguides formed by incoherent dark solitons

We demonstrate experimentally optical guidance of coherent light beams, using incoherent light. Such guidance is made possible by generation of partially spatially incoherent self-trapped dark beams (dark incoherent solitons) in a noninstantaneous nonlinear medium. In the one-dimensional case, the incoherent solitons induce single and Y-junction planar waveguides, whereas in the two-dimensional case, they form circular waveguides. These experiments introduce the possibility of controlling high-power laser beams with low-power incoherent light sources such as LED's or lightbulbs.     

Novel Ghost Imaging Method for a Pure Phase Object

We propose a novel ghost imaging scheme which is especially served to a pure phase object. A spatially incoherent beam is mixed with a coherent beam of the same frequency field by a beamsplitter. Then we perform the ghost imaging scheme using the mixed beam. Our theoretical result shows that this approach is capable of reconstructing a pure phase object in joint-intensity measurement. The visibility of the images is also analysed for two pure phase objects, an optical wedge and a phase grating.     

Noise performance of a white-light optical signal processor

A study of the effects of spatially and partially coherent illumination on the noise performance of an optical processor is presented here. Noise arising from defects in the object plane and the Fourier plane are considered separately. Two important types of noise are analyzed in detail: (a) amplitude noise and (b) ramdom phase noise. The results illustrate that the effects of the object phase noise can be reduced when the requirements on spatial coherence are relaxed. Also, the noise at the Fourier plane can be effectively eliminated when a spatially incoherent light source is employed.     

Modulation instability of incoherent beams in noninstantaneous nonlinear media

We show that modulation instability can exist with partially spatially incoherent light beams in a noninstantaneous nonlinear environment. For such incoherent modulation instability to occur, the value of the nonlinearity has to exceed a threshold imposed by the degree of spatial coherence.     

Selective edge enhancement in three-dimensional vortex imaging with incoherent light

We demonstrate a new imaging method enabling a selective edge contrast enhancement of three-dimensional amplitude objects with spatially incoherent light. The imaging process is achieved in a spiral modification of Fresnel incoherent correlation holography and uses a vortex impulse response function. The correlation recordings of the object are acquired in a one-way interferometer with the wavefront division carried out by a spatial light modulator. Two different methods based on applying a helical reference wave in the hologram recording and a digital spiral phase modulation in image reconstruction are proposed for edge enhancement of amplitude objects. Results of both isotropic and anisotropic spiral imaging are demonstrated in experiments using an LED as an incoherent source of light.     

Coupled spatial-soliton pairs in saturable nonlinear media

We present a simple and straightforward approach to investigate coupled spatial-soliton pairs of two copropagating mutually incoherent (i.e., both beams are fully spatially and temporally coherent, but are incoherent with respect to one another) light beams in saturable nonlinear media. The approach provides a deeper understanding of coupled spatial-soliton pairs and reveals many interesting features, including the entire existence curve of such solitons.     

空间非相干多分量光束构成的非相干耦合屏蔽孤子对

两束本身具有空间非相干性的非相干多分量光束可以在光折变介质中形成非相干耦合 屏蔽孤子对，利用相干密度法得到了亮 亮、暗 暗型耦合孤子对的解，并研究了构成 非相干孤子对分量光束的相干组分的传播特性. 关键词： 空间非相干多分量光束 耦合孤子对 相干密度 相干组分     

Wave optics simulation approach for high-power laser beam combination

A numerical wave optics approach for simulating multiplex super Gaussian beam combination in high-power laser facility is presented. The approach involves the application of a sequence of random phase screens and von Karman turbulence phase to an initial beam field and the summation of the intensity results. The analytical and numerical calculation results have been given to illustrate the properties of the resulting far-field pattern after coherent, incoherent and spatially coherent combination, and some of that are compared with experimental results. The approach can be used for modeling and evaluating applications such as high-power laser shooting that might utilize different beams combining approach.     

双光子光折变介质中非相干耦合亮-暗屏蔽光伏孤子对

对有外加电场的双光子光伏光折变晶体中两束偏振方向和波长都相同的互不相干光束的耦合进行研究,给出产生亮-暗双光子光折变屏蔽光伏孤子对需满足的条件.以Cu:KNSBN晶体作为研究对象,选取α=117.3,β=83.79,η=1.5×10-4,σ=104,δ=0.005,r=10时,给出双光子光折变晶体中的非相干耦合亮-暗屏蔽光伏孤子对2个孤子分量光强的空间分布,证明有外加电场的双光子光伏光折变晶体中存在非相干耦合亮-暗屏蔽光伏孤子对,指出孤子对是由偏振态和波长都相同的两束互不相干光形成的,当外加电场方向和晶体中光伏电场的方向与晶体光轴方向相同时,双光子光折变晶体中可支持亮孤子峰值光强稍大于暗孤子最大光强的非相干耦合亮-暗孤子对,当外加电场方向和晶体中光伏电场的方向与晶体光轴方向相反时,双光子光折变晶体中可支持亮孤子峰值光强稍小于暗孤子最大光强的非相干耦合亮-暗孤子对.     

Holographic recording with a spatially incoherent imagery process

The method described consists of using the transfer properties of a classical imaging system in order to record a hologram of a two on three dimensional object. The object is illuminated by a spatially incoherent beam coming from a white light source through a holographic transparency.     

Three-dimensional imaging spectrometry by fully passive interferometry

We have developed a method to obtain a set of spectral components of three-dimensional (3D) images for a spatially incoherent, polychromatic light source distribution by a fully passive interferometric technique. The principle of the method is based on the measurement of a five-dimensional (5D) spatial coherence function and signal processing including the synthetic aperture technique and spectral decomposition. This paper gives a mathematical formulation illustrating the principle of the method, and we report an experimental demonstration in which the measured object is composed of two statistically uncorrelated point sources. The experimental results verify the applicability of our method to conventional spatially incoherent, polychromatic objects.     

拉盖尔-高斯模叠加而成的部分相干光的相干涡旋

对Bogatyryova等人近来提出的一种可分离位相的部分相干光的相干涡旋作了详细研究.这类新的光束由相同角向指数的拉盖尔-高斯(LG)模非相干叠加而成.研究表明，叠加LG模式的模指数，权重因子和参考点位置的选择都会影响圆刃型位错出现的位置，使得涡旋消失或出现多个相干涡旋.而且，LG模叠加而成的位相不可分离的部分相干光也存在相干涡旋. 关键词： 奇点光学 一类新的部分相干光束 相干涡旋 圆刃型位错     

Comparative study on the propagation performance of coherently combined and incoherently combined beams

Taking phase error, turbulent atmosphere, jitter, vacancy factor and tilt error into consideration, we propose a general propagation formula for both coherent and incoherent combined beams with different kinds of aberrations. Comparative study on the propagation performance of coherent and incoherent combined beams is presented. Beam propagation factor (BPF) defined as laser output power in a specified far-field bucket divided by the total output power radiating from the effective near-field exit aperture of the laser beam is introduced as the beam quality factor to give a quantitative study. It is revealed that the coherent combined beam has great advantage when propagating in free-space compared with the incoherent combined beams. However, the coherent combined beam is more sensitive to the environmental aberrations, and the beam quality degrades faster with an increase in the aberrations’ intensity. Scintillation index as the high moments of the combined intensity field is also studied. It is revealed that both coherent and incoherent combined beams exhibit less scintillations compared with a single-aperture beam, and the incoherent combined beam demonstrates better scintillations reducing the performance. Our methodology offers an all-round performance evaluation on the two kinds of laser systems.     

Interpretation of the recipe for synthesizing genuine cross-spectral density matrices

A physical interpretation of the recipe for synthesizing genuine 2 × 2 cross-spectral density matrices that characterize stochastic electromagnetic sources and beams is described. In this interpretation, the synthesized field is regarded as an incoherent superposition of spatially coherent fields originating from a partially polarized, spatially incoherent virtual source. The coherence and the polarization properties of the synthesized field are also examined in view of this interpretation. As a result, we found that the spectral degree of coherence and that of polarization of the synthesized field are generally different from those of the virtual source by the effect of the superposition. We also found, however, that there are some situations in which the spectral degree of polarization of the synthesized field remains unchanged even though the superposition takes place.     

部分空间非相干光光伏空间孤子

对单色非相干光光伏空间孤子进行了理论研究.发现非相干光光伏空间孤子所满足的微分方程与相干光光伏空间孤子的具有相似性,并可用于近似描述相干距离远小于光束尺寸的部分空间非相干光光伏空间孤子.在Cu:KNSBN晶体中观察到单色光部分空间非相干光光伏空间亮孤子. 关键词： 光伏 部分空间非相干 孤子     

Nonlinear interaction and reflection of incoherent light beams

The interaction dynamics between two incoherent light beams in a medium with thermal nonlin-earity is studied both experimentally and theoretically. It is shown that in the mode of a nonlinear reflection the transformation of a spatial structure of a weak signal beam can be theoretically described in the framework of a spatially distributed model for a nonlinear change in the refractive index of the medium.     

部分空间非相干暗光伏孤子诱导一维波导研究

在光折变晶体LiNbO3∶Fe中观察到部分空间非相干光形成的一维暗光伏孤子,并由此暗光伏孤子在该晶体中诱导出一维波导.暗光伏孤子是由光折变晶体的强光伏效应产生,是晶体自散焦效应和衍射效应相平衡的结果;此外,光伏孤子的形成还依赖于光束的传播方向和晶体光轴与强度梯度的相对方向.在一维情况下,非相干光孤子诱导出单一的平面波导,能够对弱光敏的强光进行导光.实验证明了用低能量非相干光束控制转换高能量相干光束的可能性.     

暗光伏孤子的实验研究

在LiNbO3∶Fe晶体中，采用相位掩模对部分空间非相干和相干暗光伏孤子进行了实验研究.实验观察到了部分空间非相干和相干的一维和二维暗光伏孤子，它们的形成来源于光伏效应，是自散焦效应和衍射效应平衡的结果.实验和理论分析表明，暗光伏孤子的形成与光的传输方向，强度梯度与晶体c轴夹角有关；只有在一定的条件下，才能得到稳态的部分空间非相干暗光伏孤子.     

Comment on "Phase-shift extraction and wave-front reconstruction in phase-shifting interferometry with arbitrary phase steps"

We comment on the recent Letter by Cai et al. [Opt. Lett. 28, 1808 (2003)] in which an approach to phase-shifting interferometry with arbitrary phase steps was proposed. Cai et al. based their method of phase shifting on the idea that the intensities of the reference and object beams can be measured previously, which actually makes the whole posterior phase-shifting procedure absolutely unnecessary. Their method is also based on the statement that the phase of the Fresnel diffraction pattern of a test object if generally a spatially random distribution, which in most situations is wrong.