Abstract
The feasibility of noninterferometric methods to measure phase distribution in a laser beam cross section for visualization of the vortex dislocations of an optical speckle-field wave front is analyzed. Peculiarities of the phase retrieved from the measured intensity distribution (the phase problem in optics) and from the wave-front slopes measured by a Hartmann sensor are discussed. A concept of the vortex and the potential parts of the phase is introduced. An analytic formula to retrieve the potential phase from the measured intensity has been obtained. We show that the considered means of measurements allow the positions of the dislocation centers to be sensed and the spatial configuration of the intensity zero lines to be reconstructed.
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