Abstract
A method is proposed for the experimental determination of the amplitude and phase structure of a quasimonochromatic wave field in a plane normal to its propagation direction. The wave field may represent either a scalar electromagnetic (EM) field or the quantum mechanical (QM) wave function of a matter wave. For coherent EM fields or pure QM states, the method uniquely reconstructs the complex wave fields. For partially coherent EM fields or mixed QM states, it reconstructs the two-point correlation function or density matrix. The experiment uses only intensity measurements and refractive optics (lenses), and the data analysis algorithm is noniterative and requires no deconvolution.
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