Differentiation of globally unpolarized complex random fields

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

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 988-993

  Ellis, Jeremy ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTEGRATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

OBSERVABLE POLARIZATION SPHERE; RANDOM VECTOR FIELDS; STOKES VECTOR; UNPOLARIZED LIGHT;

STATISTICAL OPTICS;

EID: 2942737191     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.000988     Document Type: Article

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