A fast optical method for measuring spatial complexity in optical fields

O. V. Angelsky

doi:10.1117/12.2308554

26 July 1993 A fast optical method for measuring spatial complexity in optical fields

O. V. Angelsky

Proceedings Volume 1983, 16th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics as a Key to High Technology; 19833R (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308554
Event: 16th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics as a Key to High Technology, 1993, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract

No actual optical object is absolutely random in the sense of the probability theory. Therefore, the fields resulting from such objects are not absolutely random but carry information on the degree of ordering in the object. Any optical phase object can be viewed as a continuous system which can generate both time- and space-time chaos. For a time-independent case, a notion of optical field dimension can be introduced by analogy with the time-dependent case. As a measure of such dimension, the correlation exponent can be used.

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O. V. Angelsky "A fast optical method for measuring spatial complexity in optical fields", Proc. SPIE 1983, 16th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics as a Key to High Technology, 19833R (26 July 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308554

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