Title

Young's interference experiment with light of any state of coherence and of polarization

Authors

Authors

H. Roychowdhury;E. Wolf

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

BEAMS; Optics

Abstract

A general expression is derived for the electric cross-spectral density matrix of a random electromagnetic beam in an observation plane parallel to the plane of the pinholes in a Young interference experiment when the pinholes are illuminated by light of any state of coherence and of polarization. It is shown that the degree of polarization 9 in the observation plane may take on values different from those it takes at each pinhole, depending on the value of the degree of coherence of the light incident on the pinholes. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

252

Issue/Number

4-6

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

268

Last Page

274

WOS Identifier

WOS:000230968300008

ISSN

0030-4018

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