Abstract
Determination of orbital angular momentum of optical vortex beams has attracted the attention of many researchers over the last few years. For some applications, it is convenient to use a partially coherent vortex beam because of its robustness. In this work, we developed a method to measure the topological charge of a partially coherent vortex beam. Our method relies simply in the measurement of the minimum radius of a zero contour of the modulus of the cross-correlation function and in the measurement of the full width at half maximum of its central spot.
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