Classes of source pairs and etendue renormalization in interference and diffraction

Roman Castaneda; Jorge Ivan Garcia-Sucerquia; Francisco F. Medina-Estrada

doi:10.1117/12.524875

19 November 2003 Classes of source pairs and etendue renormalization in interference and diffraction

Roman Castaneda, Jorge Ivan Garcia-Sucerquia, Francisco F. Medina-Estrada

Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.524875
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

The power spectrum of a diffracted optical field is expanded as the superposition of Young interference patterns produced by all source pairs in the diffracting aperture. It shows clearly that the power spectrum can take negative values for some types of spatially partially coherent optical fields. A renormalization of the definition of the power spectrum based on the etendue is introduced to properly overcome this fact.

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Roman Castaneda, Jorge Ivan Garcia-Sucerquia, and Francisco F. Medina-Estrada "Classes of source pairs and etendue renormalization in interference and diffraction", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.524875

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