Application Examples

doi:10.1117/3.2652240.ch5

Book: Computational Optical Coherence and Statistical Optics

Author(s): Milo W. Hyde IV

Published: 2023

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2652240.ch5

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Abstract

So far this book has followed the basic outline where we first reviewed key theoretical concepts in statistical optics, and then presented methods for generating optical field realizations with the proper (or desired) statistics. Here, we apply those concepts from previous chapters to analyze and then simulate classical statistical optics experiments and instruments, as well as applications that utilize random light. We begin this chapter with the double-slit or Young’s experiment followed by the Michelson interferometer. We then present beam shaping and polarization control with stochastic light, before simulating Hanbury Brown and Twiss’ famous intensity interferometry experiment from the 1950s. We close the chapter with imaging and partially coherent light.