Measuring the complete transverse spatial mode spectrum of a wave field
Fernández Calvo, Gabriel (Instituto de Matemàtica Aplicada en Ciencia e Ingeniería (Ciudad Real))
Picón Álvarez, Antonio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Zambrini, Roberta (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (Palma de Mallorca))
American Physical Society

Date:	2008
Abstract:	We put forward a method that allows the experimental determination of the entire spatial mode spectrum of any arbitrary monochromatic wave field in a plane normal to its propagation direction. For coherent optical fields, our spatial spectrum analyzer can be implemented with a small number of benchmark refractive elements embedded in a single Mach-Zehnder interferometer. We detail an efficient setup for measuring in the Hermite-Gaussian mode basis. Our scheme should also be feasible in the context of atom optics for analyzing the spatial profiles of macroscopic matter waves.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Physical review letters, Vol. 100, Issue 17 (April 2008) , p. 173902, ISSN 1079-7114

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.173902

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