Shaping the intensity and degree of coherence of a partially coherent beam by a 4f optical system with an amplitude filter

摘要

It is known that a 4f optical system with an amplitude filter can be adopted to shape the intensity of a coherent Gaussian beam. In this paper, we investigate the propagation of a typical kind of partially coherent beam called a Gaussian Schell-model (GSM) beam through a 4f optical system with an amplitude filter in the frequency plane. It is demonstrated both numerically and experimentally that the 4f optical system with an amplitude filter can be used to shape the intensity and degree of coherence of a GSM beam simultaneously. The shaped beam displays interesting properties and forms controllable far-field intensity lattices, which may be useful for particle trapping and information transfer.