Authors:
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the Universidad
- Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Presents strategies for the analysis of symmetric and asymmetric partially coherent beams
- Provides a comprehensive explanation of phase-space tomography, including theory, simulation and experiments
- Includes the Matlab code used for experiments
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This thesis focuses on the fundamental problem of characterising partially coherent beams. The book describes several non-interferometric methods based on phase-space tomography for recovering the spatial coherence information of optical beams.
In the context of optical beams, partially coherent light provides numerous advantages over coherent light. From microscopy to optical communications, there are many disciplines that benefit from using partially coherent beams. However, their range of applications currently remains limited due to the complexity of extracting information. In addition to providing a feasible experimental solution for the general case, the book explores several situations in which beam symmetries are exploited to simplify the information extraction process. Each characterisation method is accompanied by a corresponding theoretical explanation and a thorough description of experimental examples.
Keywords
- Analysis of partially coherent light
- Beam symmetry and information extraction
- Characterizating rotationally symmetric beam
- Coherence recovery of separable beams
- Measuring optical spatial coherence
- Nature of phase-space tomography
- Radon-Wigner display
- Radon-Wigner transform
- Recovery of mutual intensity of light
Authors and Affiliations
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Departamento de Óptica, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Alejandro Cámara
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optical Beam Characterization via Phase-Space Tomography
Authors: Alejandro Cámara
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19980-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19979-5Published: 27 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36987-7Published: 15 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19980-1Published: 18 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 114
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Spectroscopy and Microscopy