Correlations between intensity fluctuations in stochastic electromagnetic beams of any state of coherence and polarization

Optics Communications

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 289-292

  Shirai, Tomohiro ^a,b   Wolf, Emil ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; STOCHASTIC ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 33847127872     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.11.041     Document Type: Article

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