Abstract

The orbital angular momentum properties of beams having an arbitrary degree of coherence for any radial and azimuthal order are analyzed. A generalized analytic solution is determined and the vortex structure on propagation is found to reconstruct itself, an effect that can be considered as a vortex supplement to the van Cittert--Zernike theorem.

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