Ray-based simulation of the propagation of light with different degrees of coherence through complex optical systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1527-1534

  Riechert, Falko ^a   Dürr, Fabian ^a   Rohlfing, Udo ^b   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ARBITRARY POSITIONS; COHERENCE PROPERTIES; COMPLEX DEGREE OF COHERENCE; COMPLEX OPTICAL SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL EXTENSION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; PARTIALLY COHERENT LIGHT; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 63149145493     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001527     Document Type: Article

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