Enhancement of far-field spatial coherence of a partially coherent light source by source masking

Boopathi, V and Vasu, RM and Rao, Kameswara L (1993) Enhancement of far-field spatial coherence of a partially coherent light source by source masking. In: Applied Optics, 32 (23). pp. 4410-4414.

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Abstract

The role of a sharp autocorrelation phase mask, called the bleached uniformly redundant array, for improving the spatial coherence in the far-field of partially coherent light sources is studied. It is shown both theoretically and experimentally that the input source correlation plays an important role in determining the amount of enhancement introduced by the phase mask.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Applied Optics
Publisher:	Optical Society of America
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Optical Society of America.
Keywords:	Optical processing;Partial coherence.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics
Date Deposited:	10 Jul 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:29
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/7846

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