Title
Measuring the phase of spatially coherent polychromatic fields
Abbreviated Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Keywords
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Abstract
Realistic optical fields are never completely monochromatic and the interpretation of the concept of phase is not straightforward. It has been pointed out by Wolf that, if a strict condition of spatial coherence is imposed, the statistically averaged behavior of a polychromatic field can be described by an associated monochromatic wave. We show that, for spatially coherent polychromatic optical fields, the measurement of the phase of the second-order correlations determines the phase of this associated, spatially coherent field. We verify this prediction using a novel interferometric technique for measuring the cross-spectral density of a steady-state optical field.
Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
89
Issue/Number
24
Publication Date
1-1-2002
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
2
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0031-9007
Recommended Citation
"Measuring the phase of spatially coherent polychromatic fields" (2002). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 3158.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/3158