Theory of partially coherent electromagnetic fields in the space-frequency domain

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

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2205-2215

  Tervo, Jani ^a,b   Setälä, Tero ^c   Friberg, Ari T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b LightTrans GmbH   (Germany)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSORS; VECTORS;

COHERENT MODE REPRESENTATION; CORRELATION TENSOR; GAUSSIAN SCHELL MODEL BEAMS; SPACE-FREQUENCY DOMAIN; VECTORIAL WAVE FUNCTIONS;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 8744301961     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.002205     Document Type: Article

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