Generation of complete coherence in Young's interference experiment with random mutually uncorrelated electromagnetic beams

    Authors

    G. S. Agarwal; A. Dogariu; T. D. Visser;E. Wolf

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    POLARIZATION; Optics

    Abstract

    The recently developed theory that unifies the treatments of polarization and coherence of random electromagnetic beams is applied to study field correlations in Young's interference experiment. It is found that at certain pairs of points the transmitted field is spatially fully coherent, irrespective of the state of coherence and polarization of the field that is incident on the two pinholes. (C) 2005 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    30

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2005

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    120

    Last Page

    122

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000226218500002

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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