Title

Coherence and polarization properties of electromagnetic laser modes

Authors

Authors

E. Wolf

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

Optics

Abstract

A recently formulated mode representation of stochastic electromagnetic fields, based on a unified theory of coherence and polarization is applied to determine the transverse laser resonator modes in any rotationally symmetric cavity. It is found that the electromagnetic modes can be expressed in a simple way in terms of the classic Fox-Li modes of the monochromatic scalar theory; and that, if there is no degeneracy, each mode is completely spatially coherent and its degree of polarization is the same at each point of the cavity mirror. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

265

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

60

Last Page

62

WOS Identifier

WOS:000240221400010

ISSN

0030-4018

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