Correlation matrix of a completely polarized, statistically stationary electromagnetic field

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1536-1538

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION MATRIX; ELECTRIC VECTORS; MONOCHROMATIC FIELD;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 3142733053     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.001536     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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2. C. Brosseau, Fundamentals of Polarized Light (Wiley, New York, 1998).
3. T. Carozzi, R. Karlsson, and J. Bergman, Phys. Rev. E 61, 2024 (2000).
4. L. Mandel and E. Wolf, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 1995).
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6. A referee of this paper pointed out that, in Ref. 1, a definition of the degree of polarization of three-dimensional fields was put forward that gives the value unity in this limiting case. This is, however, fortuitous, because the definition proposed in Ref. 1 is purely formal and does not have the meaning of the ratio of the intensity of a fully polarized field to the total intensity at a point.