Spatial correlated vortex arrays

Abstract

Spatial correlated vortex arrays may form in the same beam when a random source contains multiple helical phase structures. We introduced two types of partially coherent sources with Cartesian and polar symmetric helical phase structure and reveal the characteristics of their radiated fields, respectively. It is demonstrated that far fields generated by these families of sources carry interesting features through the joint regulation of coherence and topological charge, being lattice-like vortex patterns with adjustable dimension and shape.