Synthesis of Polychromatic Light Sources with Arbitrary Degrees of Coherence: Some Experiments
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of Modern Optics
- Vol. 36 (2), 251-259
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09500348914550291
Abstract
A simple optical system for synthesizing two-dimensional planar sources having a wide variety of one-dimensional spectral degrees of coherence is analysed. A pupil-mask acting on the dispersed image of a polychromatic incoherent slit is used to control the spectral degree of coherence of the source. Examples of sources exhibiting interesting spectral shifts and modulations in the far field are shown.Keywords
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