Title

Polarization of a spatially fully coherent electromagnetic beam

Authors

Authors

E. Wolf

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Mod. Opt.

Keywords

Optics

Abstract

Using a recently developed unified theory of coherence and polarization [ E. Wolf, Phys. Lett., A312, 263 - 267 ( 2003)] it is shown that a spatially completely coherent random electromagnetic beam can have a degree of polarization P which may take on any value ( 0 less than or equal to P less than or equal to 1) at points in the beam. In particular the beam can be fully polarized at one point and completely unpolarized or partially polarized at another point. This result also holds for electromagnetic beams which are not completely spatially coherent.

Journal Title

Journal of Modern Optics

Volume

51

Issue/Number

5

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

757

Last Page

759

WOS Identifier

WOS:000220200000011

ISSN

0950-0340

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