Experimental investigation of the singular phenomena in statistical optical fields

Wei Wang; Mitsuo Takeda

doi:10.1117/12.793741

11 August 2008 Experimental investigation of the singular phenomena in statistical optical fields

Wei Wang, Mitsuo Takeda

Proceedings Volume 7057, The Nature of Light: Light in Nature II; 705704 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.793741
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper is a review and extension of our recent work on three types of singular optical phenomena in statistical optical fields, including phase singularities (optical vortices) in laser speckle fields, polarization singularities in polarization speckle, and coherence vortices in optical coherence functions. For the generation and detection of these unique singular optical phenomena, different optical setups have been introduced. Some geometric structures and statistics associated with singularities are also investigated by experiments.

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Wei Wang and Mitsuo Takeda "Experimental investigation of the singular phenomena in statistical optical fields", Proc. SPIE 7057, The Nature of Light: Light in Nature II, 705704 (11 August 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.793741

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