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Spatial coherence beams in the far field

Román Castañeda, Jorge Garcı́a-Sucerquia, Francisco F. Medina-Estrada

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Spatial coherence of optical fields can be considered as beam structured if the size of the coherence patch varies slowly through the propagation of the optical field. As a consequence, the correlation of the optical field will be concentrated in a finite region around the direction of propagation. For properly describing it in the Fraunhofer-Fresnel domain, the marginal cross-spectral density is introduced. The superposition of spatial coherence beams in this domain is also analyzed. It produces an interference field and a spatial coherence Moire.

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Spatial coherence of optical fields can be considered as beam structured if the size of the coherence patch varies slowly through the propagation of the optical field. As a consequence, the correlation of the optical field will be concentrated in a finite region around the direction of propagation. For properly describing it in the Fraunhofer-Fresnel domain, the marginal cross-spectral density is introduced. The superposition of spatial coherence beams in this domain is also analyzed. It produces an interference field and a spatial coherence Moire.

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Spatial coherence of optical fields can be considered as beam structured if the size of the coherence patch varies slowly through the propagation of the optical field. As a consequence, the correlation of the optical field will be concentrated in a finite region around the direction of propagation. For properly describing it in the Fraunhofer-Fresnel domain, the marginal cross-spectral density is introduced. The superposition of spatial coherence beams in this domain is also analyzed. It produces an interference field and a spatial coherence Moire.

Key concepts: Spatial coherence, Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy), Superposition principle, Coherence theory, Near and far field, Optics, Degree of coherence, Coherence time

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