Statistics of partially coherent beams: A numerical analysis

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

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1000-1003

  Mujat, Claudia ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

GAUSSIAN-SCHELL MODEL BEAM; LIGHT INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; PARTIALLY COHERENT BEAMS; SPECTRAL INTERFERENCE;

STATISTICAL OPTICS;

EID: 3042524981     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.001000     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. B. C. Wilson and G. Adam, "A Monte Carlo model for the absorption and flux distributions of light in tissue," Med. Phys. 10, 824-830 (1983).
2. R. Lenke and G. Maret, in Scattering in Polymeric and Colloidal Systems, W. Brown and K. Mortensen, eds. (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 1-73.
3. J. Schmitt, A. Knuttel, and M. Yadlowski, "Confocal microscopy in turbid media," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, 2226-2235 (1994).
4. Y. Pan, R. Birngruber, J. Rosperich, and R. Engelhardt, "Low-coherence optical tomography in turbid tissue: theoretical analysis," Appl. Opt. 34, 6564-6574 (1995).
5. V. R. Daria, C. Saloma, and S. Kawata, "Excitation with a focused, pulsed optical beam in scattering media: diffraction effects," Appl. Opt. 39, 5244-5255 (2000).
6. L. V Wang, "Mechanisms of ultrasonic modulation of multiply scattered coherent light: a Monte Carlo model," Opt. Lett. 26, 1191-1193 (2001).
7. A. Tycho and T. M. Jorgensen, "Comment on 'Excitation with a focused, pulsed optical beam in scattering media: diffraction effects'," Appl. Opt. 41, 4709-4711 (2002).
8. E. Baleine and A. Dogariu, "Propagation of partially coherent beams through particulate media," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20, 2041-2045 (2003).
9. E. Wolf, "A new description of the second-order coherence phenomena in the space frequency domain," in International. Congress of Ophthalmology Conference Proceedings, No. 65, Optics in Four Dimensions, 1980, M. A. Machad and L. M. Narducci, eds. (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1981), pp. 42-48.
10. L. Mandel and E. Wolf, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1995), pp. 276-287.
11. J. C. Dainty, Laser Speckle and Related Phenomena (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York, 1975).
12. H. Fuji and T. Asakura, "Statistical properties of image speckle patterns in partially coherent light," Nouv. Rev. Opt. 6, 5-14