The techniques of optical beam sha** have enabled progress in a broad range of
interdisciplinary science and engineering, owing to the unique properties and promising …

Optical coherence is a fundamental characteristic of light that plays a significant role in
understanding interference, propagation, light–matter interaction, and other fundamental …

Partially coherent beams with nonconventional correlation functions have displayed many
extraordinary properties, such as self-focusing and self-splitting, which are totally different …

We introduce a class of partially coherent beams with spatially varying correlation
properties. It is shown that mathematically simple modifications in the coherence function of …

Over the last century, classical optical coherence has developed from a few vaguely related
concepts into a standing along branch of optics and, more broadly, electromagnetics, that …

Partially coherent beams with a prescribed phase, state of polarization, and degree of
coherence display many extraordinary propagation properties and are preferred in many …

Focused structured light fields with spatially nonuniform correlation can exhibit multiple focal
points in the longitudinal direction, which suggests that they are suitable for longitudinal …

The first article by Turunen and Friberg deals with a class of fields with propagation-invariant
properties such as the optical intensity distribution. Coherent and partially coherent …

We introduce a new class of partially coherent sources of Schell type with cosine-Gaussian
spectral degree of coherence and confirm that such sources are physically genuine. Further …

Publisher Summary The general framework of optical coherence theory is now well
established and has been described in numerous publications. This chapter provides an …