Partially correlated thin annular sources: The scalar case

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

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2826-2832

  Gori, Franco ^a   Santarsiero, Massimo ^a   Borghi, Riccardo ^a   Li, Chun Fang ^b,c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTANCES; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CORRELATION PROPERTIES; FREE PROPAGATION; MODAL EXPANSIONS; PARTIAL CORRELATIONS; RADIATED FIELDS; TWO POINTS;

EID: 61349111534     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002826     Document Type: Article

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