Abstract
A new toplogical field structure in a partially coherent field, called a correlation vortex, is described and experimentally verified in white light. Unlike a conventional optical vortex that exists in a coherent beam, a correlation vortex is a statistical phenomenon existing between states having an arbitrary degree of temporal coherence.
© 2003 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Lt Col (Ret) Gregory Foo, David Palacios, Heidi Hockel, and Grover Swartzlander
ThLL2 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2003
Dean P. Brown and Thomas G. Brown
FWV1 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2008
Cristian Hernando Acevedo, Mahed Batarseh, and Aristide Dogariu
JTh3A.114 CLEO: Applications and Technology (CLEO:A&T) 2021