Theorems on complete electromagnetic coherence in the space-time domain

Optics Communications

Volumn 238, Issue 4-6, 2004, Pages 229-236

  Setälä, Tero ^a   Tervo, Jani ^b   Friberg, Ari T ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complete coherence; Electromagnetic fields

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TENSORS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COHERENCE; SPACE TIME DOMAIN; SPATIAL VARIABLES; TENSOR FACTORS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 3343020987     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2004.04.045     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Tervo J., Setälä T., Friberg A.T. Opt. Exp. 11:2003;1137.
2. Setälä T., Tervo J., Friberg A.T. Opt. Lett. 29:2004;328.
3. Mandel L., Wolf E. Opt. Commun. 36:1981;147.
4. Mandel L., Wolf E. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics. 1995;Cambridge University Press, UK.
5. Mehta C.L., Wolf E., Balachandran A.P. J. Math. Phys. 7:1966;133.
6. Glauber R.J. Phys. Rev. 130:1963;2529.
7. Brosseau C. Fundamental of Polarized Light: A Statistical Optics Approach. 1998;Wiley, New York.
8. An alternate definition for the degree of electromagnetic coherence in the space-time domain, based directly on the visibility of electromagnetic interference fringes in a two-pinhole experiment, was put forward in 1963 by Karczewski [9,10]. Some consequences of this definition have been addressed [1]. A space-frequency analogue of this degree of electromagnetic coherence was employed in radiation analysis [11] and later, in 2003, it was formalized by Wolf for electromagnetic beams in a two-pinhole interference geometry [12]. In the fully coherent limit, this space-frequency degree of electromagnetic coherence leads to the conclusion that the trace of the electric coherence matrix (rather than the matrix itself, as in our formulation [2]) factors in the two spatial variables [13].
9. Karczewski B. Phys. Lett. 5:1963;191.
10. Karczewski B. Nuovo Cimento. 30:1963;906.
11. Carter W.H., Wolf E. Phys. Rev. A. 36:1987;1258.
12. Wolf E. Phys. Lett. A. 312:2003;263.
13. Ponomarenko S.A., Wolf E. Opt. Commun. 227:2003;73.
14. Beran M.J., Parrent G.B. Jr. Theory of Partial Coherence. 1964;Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.