Research progress on manipulating spatial coherence structure of light beam and its applications

J Yu, X Zhu, F Wang, Y Chen, Y Cai - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Optical coherence is a fundamental characteristic of light that plays a significant role in
understanding interference, propagation, light–matter interaction, and other fundamental …

Generation of partially coherent beams

Y Cai, Y Chen, J Yu, X Liu, L Liu - Progress in Optics, 2017 - Elsevier
Partially coherent beams with a prescribed phase, state of polarization, and degree of
coherence display many extraordinary propagation properties and are preferred in many …

Propagation of radially polarized Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams in a turbulent atmosphere

S Lin, C Wang, X Zhu, R Lin, F Wang, G Gbur, Y Cai… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We study the propagation properties of a recently introduced class of structured beams,
radially polarized Hermite non-uniformly correlated (RPHNUC) beams, in a turbulent …

Measuring complex degree of coherence of random light fields with generalized Hanbury Brown–Twiss experiment

Z Huang, Y Chen, F Wang, SA Ponomarenko, Y Cai - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
We advance a protocol to measure the complex spatial degree of coherence of a partially
coherent light field obeying Gaussian statistics through a generalized Hanbury Brown–Twiss …

Propagation properties of Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams in turbulence

J Yu, F Wang, L Liu, Y Cai, G Gbur - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We study the propagation properties (intensity, degree of coherence and scintillation) of a
new class of beams in a turbulent atmosphere, which are called Hermite non-uniformly …

[PDF][PDF] Robust far-field imaging by spatial coherence engineering

Y Liu, Y Chen, F Wang, Y Cai, C Liang… - Opto-Electron …, 2021 - researching.cn
In this section, we derive the cross-spectral density (CSD) function of a cosine-Gaussian
correlated Schell-model (CGCSM) beam with a cross phase (CP), propagating in a paraxial …

Rectangular Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams and its propagation properties

J Yu, Y Cai, G Gbur - Optics Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We introduce a new class of non-uniformly correlated beams that are called rectangular
Hermite non-uniformly correlated (RHNUC) beams, which possess rectangular symmetry in …

High-quality partially coherent Bessel beam array generation

C Liang, X Zhu, C Mi, X Peng, F Wang, Y Cai… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We propose a protocol for generating high-quality, partially coherent (quasi-) Bessel beam
arrays with controllable beam order and spatial distributions. Our protocol involves, apart …

Self-steering partially coherent vector beams

H Mao, Y Chen, C Liang, L Chen, Y Cai… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We introduce a class of self-steering partially coherent vector optical beams with the aid of a
generalized complex Gaussian representation. We show that such partially coherent vector …

Propagation properties of Laguerre-Gaussian Schell-model beams with a twist phase

Y Liu, R Lin, F Wang, Y Cai, J Yu - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we introduce a new class of twisted partially coherent beams with a prescribed
correlation function, twisted Laguerre-Gaussian Schell-model (TLGSM) beams, whose twist …