Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Cross-spectral purity was conceived in the context of coherence research and has remained largely unknown to the wider optics community. Over the past few decades, coherence researchers have made progress in uncovering the intricate properties of this fundamental concept. Cross-spectral purity has been shown to be intimately connected to the concept of spatiotemporal separability, generalizing the concept of separability from fields to correlation functions. It has an observable effect on a multitude of experiments, and purity is in fact assumed in many well-known experiments. In this tutorial, we discuss the basic definitions related to cross-spectral purity and investigate some special cases. Additionally, we show how to generate and detect this property, and consider its experimental significance in areas such as ultrashort pulses, quantum optics, scattering, and ghost imaging.
DOI: 10.1364/josaa.563566
Authors: Rajneesh Joshi, Tero Setälä, Ari T. Friberg, Matias Koivurova
Language: English
Subfield: Acoustics and Ultrasonics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Academy of Finland
OpenAlex ID: W4410823456