Spatial behavior of the coherence tensors for blackbody radiation emission

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 497-509

  Bertilone, D C ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACKBODY RADIATION; SCALAR COHERENCE THEORY; VAN CITTERT-ZERNIKE THEOREM;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TENSORS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VECTORS;

HEAT RADIATION;

EID: 0031079179     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.000497     Document Type: Article

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