Title

Physical significance of complete spatial coherence of optical fields

Authors

Authors

S. A. Ponomarenko; H. Roychowdhury;E. Wolf

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Phys. Lett. A

Keywords

Physics, Multidisciplinary

Abstract

We show that complete coherence of light fluctuations at two points in a statistically stationary optical field implies that the fluctuations are either identical or are proportional to each other, a property which may be called statistical similarity. In particular for light to be completely coherent it need not be monochromatic nor do the fluctuations need to be deterministic. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Physics Letters A

Volume

345

Issue/Number

1-3

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

10

Last Page

12

WOS Identifier

WOS:000232070300002

ISSN

0375-9601

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