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

    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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