Discrimination of globally unpolarized fields through stokes vector element correlations

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

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 491-496

  Ellis, Jeremy ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GLOBALLY UNPOLARIZED LIGHT; STOKES VECTOR;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 15044357504     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.000491     Document Type: Article

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