Digital Holography Experiments with Degraded Temporal Coherence

Authors

Douglas E. Thornton, Air Force Institute of Technology
Davin Mao, Air Force Institute of Technology
Mark F. Spencer, Air Force Research Laboratory
Christopher A. Rice, Air Force Institute of TechnologyFollow
Glen P. Perram, Air Force Institute of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2020

Abstract

To simulate the effects of multiple-longitudinal modes and rapid fluctuations in center frequency, we use sinusoidal phase modulation and linewidth broadening, respectively. These effects allow us to degrade the temporal coherence of our master-oscillator laser, which we then use to conduct digital holography experiments. In turn, our results show that the coherence efficiency decreases quadratically with fringe visibility and that our measurements agree with our models to within 1.8% for sinusoidal phase modulation and 6.9% for linewidth broadening.

Comments

This is an open access article published by SPIE and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC BY 4.0

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Author Mark F. Spencer was co-affiliated with AFIT at the time of publication.

DOI

10.1117/1.OE.59.10.102406

Source Publication

Optical Engineering (ISSN 0091-3286 | e-ISSN 1560-2303

Recommended Citation

Douglas E. Thornton, Davin Mao, Mark F. Spencer, Christopher A. Rice, and Glen P. Perram "Digital holography experiments with degraded temporal coherence," Optical Engineering 59(10), 102406 (11 January 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.59.10.102406