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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 26, Issue 21, Pages 26830-26844Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.026830
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91750201, 11525418, 11774251, 11474213, 11804198, 11874046]
- Priority Academic Program Development (PAPD) of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province
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We introduce a new kind of partially coherent vortex (PCV) beam with fractional topological charge named partially coherent fractional vortex (PCFV) beam and derive the propagation formula for such beam passing through a stigmatic ABCD optical system with the help of the convolution method. We calculate numerically the propagation properties of a PCFV beam focused by a thin lens, and we find that the PCFV beam exhibits unique propagation properties. The opening gap of the intensity pattern and the rotation of the beam spot disappear gradually and the cross-spectral density (CSD) distribution becomes more symmetric and more recognizable with the decrease of the spatial coherence width, being qualitatively different from those of the PCV beam with integral topological charge. Furthermore, we carry out experimental generation of a PCFV beam with controllable spatial coherence, and measure its focusing properties. Our experimental results are consistent with the theoretical predictions. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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