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Stuti Joshi, Saba N Khan, P Senthilkumaran

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    Partially coherent polarization singular beams (PC-PSBs) exhibit correlation singularities influenced by vortex beam topological charge and coherence length. The number of ring dislocations in spectral degree of coherence (SDoC) reveals beam properties for applications like free-space communication.

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