Simulation of vector fields with arbitrary second-order correlations

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2837-2846

  Davis, Brynmor J ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL CORRELATION;

COHERENCE FUNCTION; SECOND-ORDER CORRELATIONS; VECTOR FIELDS;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 33947420833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002837     Document Type: Article

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