Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15 (3): 030002, Published Online: Jul. 25, 2018
Experimental determination of the azimuthal and radial mode orders of a partially coherent LGpl beam (Invited Paper)
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Fig. 1. Distributions of the normalized average intensity and modulus of the correlation functions of a partially coherent LG p l beam with p = 1 , l = 1 , ω 0 = 0.57 mm , and δ g = 0.8 mm in the focal plane. (a) I ( r ) , (b) | μ ( r , 0 ) | , (c) | μ ( r , − r ) | , and (d) | μ ( r , 2 r ) | .
Fig. 2. Distribution of the normalized modulus of the DCF of a partially coherent LG p l beam for different l with p = 1 . (a) l = 0 , (b) l = 1 , (c) l = 2 , and (d) l = 3 .
Fig. 3. Distribution of the normalized modulus of the DCF of a partially coherent LG p l beam for different p with l = 6 in the focal plane. (a) p = 0 , (b) p = 1 , (c) p = 2 , and (d) p = 3 .
Fig. 4. Experimental setup for generating a partially coherent LG p l beam and measuring the correlation functions. NDF, neutral density filter; BE, beam expander; L 1 , L 2 , L 3 , thin lenses; GAF, Gaussian amplitude filter; CA, circular aperture; PC 1 , PC 2 , personal computers.
Fig. 5. Schematic for the transformations of the intensity matrix. The matrices with green, yellow, and red elements denote the intensity matrix I n ( x , y ) , the first sub-matrix I n ′ ( x ′ , y ′ ) , and the second sub-matrix I n ′ ( 2 x ′ , 2 y ′ ) , respectively.
Fig. 6. Experimental results of the average intensity and square of the normalized modulus of different correlation functions of the generated partially coherent LG p l beam in the focal plane with p = 1 and l = 1 . (a) I ( r ) , (b) | μ ( r , 0 ) | 2 , (c) | μ ( r , − r ) | 2 , and (d) | μ ( r , 2 r ) | 2 .
Fig. 7. Experimental results of the square of the normalized modulus of the DCF of the generated partially coherent LG p l beam with p = 1 for different l in the focal plane. (a) l = 0 , (b) l = 1 , (c) l = 2 , and (d) l = 3 .
Xianlong Liu, Tengfei Wu, Lin Liu, Chengliang Zhao, Yangjian Cai. Experimental determination of the azimuthal and radial mode orders of a partially coherent LG