Generalized optical interferometry for modal analysis in arbitrary degrees of freedom

    Authors

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

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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

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