Hidden transverse-flow topology in partially coherent structured light

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14923v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:24:35 GMT
• Title: Hidden transverse-flow topology in partially coherent structured light
• Abstract summary: We show that partial coherence can reorganize the hidden topology of transverse optical transport.<n>In twisted Gaussian Schell-model beams, a Gaussian intensity hides a distributed rotational flow with nonzero vorticity.<n>In Laguerre-Christoffel-Darboux beams, sources with identical intensity profiles can have different flux topology.
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• Abstract: Partial coherence is commonly viewed as a mechanism that reduces contrast or smooths intensity structure. Here we show that it can also encode hidden transverse-flow topology. Starting from the cross-spectral density, we formulate a generalized transverse flux, an effective velocity field, and the associated flux trajectories for quasi-monochromatic partially coherent paraxial beams. This construction converts two-point correlation phases into local transport information and reduces to the usual coherent energy-flow picture in the single-mode limit. Because the generalized flux is obtained through a local differential operation on the cross-spectral density, the proposed trajectories can, in principle, be reconstructed from measurements of the complex second-order coherence function, without requiring direct measurement of individual optical paths. Two analytical beam families expose this hidden topology. In twisted Gaussian Schell-model beams, a Gaussian intensity hides a distributed rotational flow with nonzero vorticity. In Laguerre-Christoffel-Darboux beams, sources with identical intensity profiles can have different flux topology, producing either spiral or purely radial trajectories. Thus, intensity and coherence magnitude do not exhaust the physical information contained in the cross-spectral density: partial coherence can reorganize the hidden topology of transverse optical transport.

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