04. Coherence (temporal and spatial coherence, Van Cittert-Zernike)

Lecture notes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qU42... 0:46 Basic explanation of coherence, fringe visibility, and correlations 3:24 How the nature of the source affects correlations and coherence. Temporal coherence. 5:25 Spatial coherence, and its relation to source size 7:31 Overview of coherence, temporal coherence, and spatial coherence 8:41 Time-averaged intensity and time-dependent complex fields 12:05 Young's double slit experiment 15:17 Time average of fluctuating phase factors 17:13 Mutual coherence function, mutual intensity, complex degree of coherence 19:12 Temporal coherence, Michelson interferometer 22:13 Fourier transform spectroscopy 22:47 Optical coherence tomography 23:26 Propagation of temporally partially coherent fields 25:19 Propagation of spatially partially coherent fields 27:30 Van Cittert-Zernike theorem 29:55 Propagation of spatially partially coherent fields using mode decomposition 31:51 Measures for the degree of coherence Other sources: Optics: Two-beam interference - collimated beams | MIT Video Demonstrations in Lasers and Optics    • Optics: Two-beam interference - collimated...   Optics: Coherence length and source spectrum | MIT Video Demonstrations in Lasers and Optics    • Optics: Coherence length and source spectr...   Statistical Optics, Joseph W. Goodman Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics, Leonard Mandel and Emil Wolf Emil Wolf, "New theory of partial coherence in the space–frequency domain. Part I: spectra and cross spectra of steady-state sources," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72, 343-351 (1982)