Propagation of transverse optical coherence in random multiple-scattering media

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 023811-023811

  Cheng, Chung Chieh ^a   Raymer, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; HELIUM NEON LASERS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; POLYSTYRENES;

FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; RANDOM MULTIPLE SCATTERING MEDIA; SPATIAL COHERENCE FUNCTION; TRANSVERSE OPTICAL COHERENCE; WIGNER FUNCTION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0342844335     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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