Title

Generalized optical interferometry for modal analysis in arbitrary degrees of freedom

Authors

Authors

A. F. Abouraddy; T. M. Yarnall;B. E. A. Saleh

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

ORBITAL ANGULAR-MOMENTUM; SINGLE-PHOTON; Optics

Abstract

We generalize the traditional concept of temporal optical interferometry to any degree of freedom of a coherent optical field. By identifying the structure of a unitary optical transformation that we designate the generalized phase operator, we enable optical interferometry to be carried out in any modal basis describing a degree of freedom. The structure of the generalized phase operator is that of a fractional optical transform, thus establishing the connection between fractional transforms, optical interferometry, and modal analysis. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

37

Issue/Number

14

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

2889

Last Page

2891

WOS Identifier

WOS:000306709900040

ISSN

0146-9592

Recommended Citation

"Generalized optical interferometry for modal analysis in arbitrary degrees of freedom" (2012). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 2188.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/2188