Different measures of speckle and coherence at the output of a multimode optical fiber
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Excitation of a multimode fiber with a focused spatially coherent light of finite bandwidth results in a partially coherent light at the output of the fiber. In this report, we observe the properties of speckle and classical coherence of such light with analytical theory, numerical modeling, and experimentally. Of particular interest is the relationship between measures of coherence and speckle and their dependence on input source bandwidth and fiber length. Speckle contrast is easy to measure experimentally and there exist at least two different methods to generate ensembles of random speckles. We demonstrate that speckle contrast evaluated over the ensemble of external diffusers is related to the number of effective modes—one of the characteristics of beam global coherence. The other speckle contrast measure evaluated over the ensemble of random bends and twists of the fiber is related to residual coherence, which is the pedestal on the average modulus of the complex degree of the coherence function on the output endface of the fiber.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1571610
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1484401
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-27749; JOAOD6
- Journal Information:
- Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision, Vol. 36, Issue 1; ISSN 1084-7529
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America (OSA)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Web of Science
Effects of residual coherence on the scintillation of a partially coherent beam
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journal | January 2019 |
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