Title
Propagation of partially coherent beams: turbulence-induced degradation
Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Lett.
Keywords
Optics
Abstract
We show that, when a partially coherent beam propagates through an inhomogeneous medium such as atmospheric turbulence, the phase randomization that is induced is less effective in degrading the spatial coherence properties. By evaluating the final beam widths we report what is to our knowledge the first experimental demonstration that, on propagation through thermally induced turbulence, a partially coherent beam is less affected than a spatially coherent beam. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.
Journal Title
Optics Letters
Volume
28
Issue/Number
1
Publication Date
1-1-2003
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
10
Last Page
12
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0146-9592
Recommended Citation
"Propagation of partially coherent beams: turbulence-induced degradation" (2003). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 3704.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/3704