| Citation: | MEI Chao, CHENG Ke, YI Xiao-wen, FU Cai-ying, ZENG Ti-xian. Spatial correlation singularities and orbital angular momentum spectra of partially coherent beams with noncanonical vortex pairs[J]. Chinese Optics. doi: 10.37188/CO.EN-2025-0001
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By introducing noncanonical vortex pairs to partially coherent beams, spatial correlation singularity (SCS) and orbital angular momenta (OAM) of the resulting beams are studied using the Fraunhofer diffraction integral, where the effect of noncanonical strength, off-axis distance and vortex sign on spatial correlation singularities in far field is stressed. Furthermore, far-field OAM spectra and densities are also investigated, where the OAM detection and crosstalk probabilities are discussed. The results show that the number of dislocations of SCS always equals the sum of absolute values of topological charges for canonical or noncanonical vortex pairs. Although the sum of the product of each OAM mode and its power weight equals the algebraic sum of topological charges for canonical vortex pairs, the relationship no longer holds in the noncanonical case except for opposite-charge vortex pairs. The change of off-axis distance, noncanonical strength or coherence length can lead to a more dominant power of adjacent mode than the center detection mode, which also indicates that crosstalk probabilities of adjacent modes exceed the center detection probability. This work may provide potential applications in OAM-based optical communication, imaging, sensing and computing.
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