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Superoscillation in speckle patterns

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Abstract

Waves are superoscillatory where their local phase gradient exceeds the maximum wavenumber in their Fourier spectrum. We consider the superoscillatory area fraction of random optical speckle patterns. This follows from the joint probability density function of intensity and phase gradient for isotropic Gaussian random wave superpositions. Strikingly, this fraction is 13 when all the waves in the two-dimensional superposition have the same wavenumber. The fraction is 15 for a disk spectrum. Although these superoscillations are weak compared with optical fields with designed superoscillations, they are more stable on paraxial propagation.

© 2008 Optical Society of America

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