Degree of polarization of statistically stationary electromagnetic fields

Optics Communications

Volumn 248, Issue 4-6, 2005, Pages 333-337

  Ellis, Jeremy ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a   Ponomarenko, Sergey ^d   Wolf, Emil ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Polarization; Statistical electromagnetic fields

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; STATISTICAL OPTICS;

COHERENCY MATRIX; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; ELECTRIC SPECTRAL CORRELATION MATRIX; STATISTICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 16244371044     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2004.12.050     Document Type: Article

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