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Yes
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Msc
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We investigate a novel approach to characterise an optical field employing a Wigner distribution function with a modal decomposition technique. Optical fields are typically characterised through their phase, beam size, far field beam divergence, beam quality and constituent modal components where a variety of measurement techniques are required to obtain the above parameters. These techniques include a modal decomposition that uses a superposition of orthogonal functions to determine constituent modal components and a knife-edge method to determine beam size by the use of a scanning slit and a detector. The use of the Wigner distribution function together with the modal decomposition is an approach to optimally obtain the various beam parameters in a single set of measurements. We demonstrate a mathematical representation of the approach and highlight the experimental procedure in modal characterisation.
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Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution
Darryl Naidoo, dnaidoo3@csir.co.za, CSIR, National laser centre.
