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Spatial coherence modulation using plane waves generated with a digital micromirror device

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  • 1. Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano
  • 2. Universidad de Antioquia

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  • 1. Revista Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquia

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Plane waves generated and alternated using a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) were evaluated for modulating the spatial coherence of a laser beam. The spatial coherence and its modulation can be represented as a sampling problem in the temporal domain. In this way, the integration time in the detector, the frame rate of the DMD, and the laser coherence time were properly adjusted or chosen to achieve the effect of a beam with a particular state of spatial coherence. Two methods were applied to superpose the plane waves and produce controlled visibility variations in the interferogram of a Young’s experiment. The visibility measurements show the variation of the modulus of the complex degree of spatial coherence, controlled by simple phase modulation, and between a pair of points on the wavefront. This procedure, which uses no mobile parts, could be applied in digital holography denoising, beam shaping, optical communications and optical metrology and imaging.

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