Correlation-induced changes in the degree of polarization, the degree of coherence, and the spectrum of random electromagnetic beams on propagation

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1078-1080

  Wolf, Emil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0037663376     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.001078     Document Type: Article

References (10)

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3. E. Wolf, "Unified theory of coherence and polarization of random electromagnetic beams," Phys. Rev. Lett. (to be published).
4. The so-called space-frequency formulation of second-order coherence theory used here is discussed, for example, in Ref. 5, Sec. 4.7.
5. L. Mandel and E. Wolf, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995).
6. Such an expression may also be readily derived in the paraxial approximation from the two Helmholtz equations that the more general 3 × 3 electric coherence matrix satisfies for prooagation in free space (Ref. 5, Sec. 6.6.3).
7. E. Wolf, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1370 (1986).
8. For a review of this subject up to 1996, see E. Wolf and D. F. V. James, Rep. Prog. Phys. 59, 771 (1996).
9. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999), 7th ed.
10. H. Roychowdhury and E. Wolf, "Determination of the electric cross-spectral density matrix of a random electromagnetic beam," to be submitted to Opt. Commun.