A law of interference of electromagnetic beams of any state of coherence and polarization and the Fresnel-Arago interference laws

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

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2414-2417

  Mujat, Mircea ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a   Wolf, Emil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL ROTATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS; FRESNEL-ARAGO INTERFERENCE LAWS; POLARIZERS; ROTATORS;

LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

EID: 10944256034     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.002414     Document Type: Article

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