HIGH-PRECISION DIGITAL AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT OF DEGREE OF COHERENCE IN THE THOMPSON AND WOLF EXPERIMENT

Authors
AMBROSINI D SPAGNOLA GS PAOLETTI D VICALVI S
Citation
D. Ambrosini et al., HIGH-PRECISION DIGITAL AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT OF DEGREE OF COHERENCE IN THE THOMPSON AND WOLF EXPERIMENT, Pure and applied optics, 7(5), 1998, pp. 933-939
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Pure and applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09639659
Volume
7
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
933 - 939
Database
ISI
SICI code
0963-9659(1998)7:5<933:HDAMOD>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We propose a high-precision digital automated quantitative determinati on of the modulus of the complex degree of coherence. The Thompson and Wolf experiment is repeated, using a CCD and a measurement method bas ed on the fast Fourier transform. The experimental results agree very well with the predictions of the theory.