T. E. C. Magalhães, J. M. Rebordão, A. Cabral
Abstract
We present spatial coherence measurements of partially coherent light in the far-field of incoherent sources with an experimental setup based on the Thompson–Wolf and Partanen–Turunen–Tervo experiments, to be performed in the context of a possible solar coherence measurement space instrument. The optical setup consists of a telescope to collimate light from a source, to diffract it by a digital micromirror device implementing a Young double-aperture interferometer in retroreflection mode, and finally to image the source into a two-dimensional sensor. Two multimode optical fibers with different diameters were used as incoherent sources and the results obtained for the spectral degree of coherence are compared to those expected from the van Cittert–Zernike theorem.
Keywords
Spatial coherence; Spatial light modulators; Statistical optics
Optics Express
Volume 226, Number 1660
2021 January
