OAM-resolved polarization in random light beams

Opt Lett. 2023 Aug 1;48(15):4029-4032. doi: 10.1364/OL.496266.

Abstract

We establish the properties of the cross-spectral density orbital angular momentum (CSD-OAM) matrix of a stationary optical beam-like field and use them to introduce the OAM-resolved polarization properties. It is shown that sufficiently general random fields contain two types of polarization, one relating to a single OAM mode and the other to a pair of modes.