Mutual information-based degrees of coherence of partially polarized light with Gaussian fluctuations

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 3117-3119

  Réfrégier, Philippe ^a  

^a Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF COHERENCE; GAUSSIAN FLUCTUATIONS; PARTIALLY POLARIZED LIGHT; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT; INVARIANCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 29444458006     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.003117     Document Type: Article

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