Unpolarized light: Classical and quantum states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2727-2735

  Lehner, J ^a   Leonhardt, U ^a   Paul, H ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL ROTATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

FOCK STATES; GLAUBERS STATES; POINCARE SPHERE; QUANTUM STATES; UNPOLARIZED LIGHT; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

LIGHT;

EID: 0030128898     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.2727     Document Type: Article

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