Title

Generalized Optical Interferometry For Modal Analysis In Arbitrary Degrees Of Freedom

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. © 2012 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

7-15-2012

Publication Title

Optics Letters

Volume

37

Issue

14

Number of Pages

2889-2891

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.002889

Socpus ID

84864334012 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84864334012

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