An algorithm for decoherence analyses of lights through three-dimensional periodic microstructures

Abstract

A transfer-matrix algorithm is presented herein as a beginning to study the transmission characteristics of coherent light through three-dimensional periodic microstructures, in which the structures are treated as two-dimensional-layer stacks and multiple reflections are considered negligible. The spatial-correlated noise is further introduced layer by layer to realize the actual decoherence of the light and allows for statistical investigation of the partial spatially coherent optics in transparent mediums. Numerical analyses show comparable results to the Gaussian Schell model in free-space cases, indicating the validity of the algorithms.