Criterion for keeping completely unpolarized or completely polarized stochastic electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model beams on propagation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 16172-16180

  Du, Xinyue ^a   Zhao, Daomu ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONSTRAINT CONDITIONS; CROSS-SPECTRAL DENSITY MATRIX; GAUSSIAN SCHELL-MODEL BEAMS; GAUSSIAN SCHELL-MODEL SOURCES; INDUCED POLARIZATION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROPAGATION IN FREE SPACES; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE;

COHERENT LIGHT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; RADIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; RADIATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 54749088317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016172     Document Type: Article

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