Abstract
We produce coherence vortices experimentally and numerically due to the orbital angular momentum of light beams and study the dependence of their bright ring area and dark region on their different orders. This is a linear dependence with a slope proportional to the bright ring area or dark area. We show that it is possible to estimate any order of coherence vortices, including fractional orders, just by calculating the bright ring area or dark area of the vortices for some specific parameters of the incident beam.
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