Characterization of partially coherent beams

Horst Weber

doi:10.1117/12.141054

4 March 1993 Characterization of partially coherent beams

Horst Weber

Proceedings Volume 1782, Thin Films for Optical Systems; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.141054
Event: Optical Systems Design '92, 1992, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

In recent years a lot of efforts were made to characterize laser beams and to describe their propagation in optical systems. More than two years one working group of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) worked in this field and has proposed a procedure to measure beam width and beam divergence1 . The Optical and Quantum Electronics Journal will publish a special issue on laser beam quality this year2. What a waste of time for a single parameter one might think. What are the problems, then? From the theoretical point of view all problems were solved more than hundred years ago3. A radiation field is completely determined by the amplitude distribution E (x,y,t) in a plane (or some other surface). By applying the well known formalisms developed by Kirchhoff, Fresnel, Rayleigh, Sommerfeld and others4 the field can be calculated in any point of the space, even for inhomogenous media with spatially varying refractive index.

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Horst Weber "Characterization of partially coherent beams", Proc. SPIE 1782, Thin Films for Optical Systems, (4 March 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.141054

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