Speckles generated by skewed, short-coherence light beams

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2011-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/1109.3023v2

New J. Phys. 13 (2011) 123007

Physics

Optics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/13/12/123007

When a coherent laser beam impinges on a random sample (e.g. a colloidal suspension), the scattered light exhibits characteristic speckles. If the temporal coherence of the light source is too short, then the speckles disappear, along with the possibility of performing homodyne or heterodyne scattering detection or photon correlation spectroscopy. Here we investigate the scattering of a so-called "skewed coherence beam", i.e., a short-coherence beam modified such that the field is coherent within slabs that are skewed with respect to the wave fronts. We show that such a beam generates speckles and can be used for heterodyne scattering detection, despite its short temporal coherence. When applied to quite turbid samples, the technique has the remarkable advantage of suppressing the multiple scattering contribution of the scattering signal. The phenomenon presented here represents a very effective method for measuring the coherence skewness of either a continuous wave or a pulsed beam. Another field of application concerns X-rays. The observation of speckles is usually limited to synchrotron radiation and FELs. Our experiment suggests that a short-coherence X-ray source can also be used, with no monochromator filtration, provided that the coherence is suitably skewed. Such a technique will also enable heterodyne scattering detection with standard short-coherence light sources.

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