Degree of coherence for vectorial electromagnetic fields as the distance between correlation matrices

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

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1063-1068

  Luis, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; VECTORS;

CROSS-SPECTRAL DENSITY MATRIX; DEGREE OF COHERENCE; VECTORIAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 34248398808     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.001063     Document Type: Article

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