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Experimental generation of optical coherence lattices

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In this article, the authors report experimental generation and measurement of recently introduced optical coherence lattices and show theoretically that information can be encoded into and, in principle, recovered from the lattice degree of coherence.
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We report experimental generation and measurement of recently introduced optical coherence lattices. The presented optical coherence lattice realization technique hinges on a superposition of mutually uncorrelated partially coherent Schell-model beams with tailored coherence properties. We show theoretically that information can be encoded into and, in principle, recovered from the lattice degree of coherence. Our results can find applications to image transmission and optical encryption.

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Generation of Partially Coherent Beams

TL;DR: Partially coherent beams with a prescribed phase, state of polarization, and degree of coherence display many extraordinary propagation properties and are preferred in many applications, such as particle trapping, free-space optical communications, remote sensing, optical imaging, material thermal processing, image transformation, and optical encryption as discussed by the authors.
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Optical coherence encryption with structured random light.

TL;DR: This work introduces an alternative optical encryption protocol whereby the information is encoded into the spatial coherence distribution of a structured random light beam via a generalized van Cittert--Zernike theorem, and shows that the proposed approach has two key advantages over its conventional counterparts.
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Controllable rotating Gaussian Schell-model beams.

TL;DR: This work introduces a new class of partially coherent beams whose spectral density and degree of coherence tend to rotate during propagation, and it is shown that such beams can undergo a twist of more than 90 deg, providing larger degrees of freedom for flexibly tailoring the beam twist.
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Partially coherent sources with circular coherence.

TL;DR: A new class of partially coherent light sources is introduced that exhibit perfect coherence along any annulus that is concentric to the source center.
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Propagation of optical coherence lattices in the turbulent atmosphere

TL;DR: It is shown how one can increase the distance over which the lattice periodicity reciprocity is preserved in the turbulent atmosphere by engineering input lattice beam parameters and that the OCLs have scintillation indices lower than those of Gaussian beams.
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Ultracold quantum gases in optical lattices

TL;DR: Optical lattices represent a fast-paced modern and interdisciplinary field of research as discussed by the authors, and they form powerful model systems of quantum many-body systems in periodic potentials for probing nonlinear wave dynamics and strongly correlated quantum phases, building fundamental quantum gates or observing Fermi surfaces.
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Microfluidic sorting in an optical lattice

TL;DR: An optical sorter for microscopic particles that exploits the interaction of particles—biological or otherwise—with an extended, interlinked, dynamically reconfigurable, three-dimensional optical lattice, and can be applied in colloidal, molecular and biological research.
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Atmospheric turbulence effects on a partially coherent Gaussian beam: implications for free-space laser communication.

TL;DR: In this article, a quasi-monochromatic Gaussian laser beam propagating in atmospheric turbulence is examined by using a derived analytic expression for the cross-spectral density function.
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Improved three-dimensional imaging with a digital holography microscope with a source of partial spatial coherence.

TL;DR: A digital holographic technique is implemented in a microscope for three-dimensional imaging reconstruction using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer that uses an incoherent light source to remove the coherent noise that is inherent in the laser sources.
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