Abstract

Inspired by the concept of coherent frozen waves, this paper introduces one possible theoretical framework of its partially coherent version, a frozen spatial coherence, in which a desired two-point correlation structure of an optical field is created on the propagation axis by superposing partially coherent zero-order Bessel beams. It is shown that the cross-spectral density can be given a description in terms of a two-dimensional Fourier series, analogous to the one-dimensional approach of coherent frozen waves. The formalism is applied to the design of a partially coherent field which is highly coherent only if the pair of points in the propagation axis belong to a predetermined and finite range and highly incoherent outside that range.

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