Quasi-stationary plane-wave optical pulses and the van Cittert-Zernike theorem in time

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

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2530-2537

  Lajunen, Hanna ^a,c   Friberg, Ari T ^a   Östlund, Petter ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PLANE-WAVE OPTICAL PULSES; PULSE TRAINS; QUASI-STATIONARY PULSES; VAN CITTERT-ZERNIKE THEOREM;

RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33751223515     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.002530     Document Type: Article

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