Title

A scalar-mode representation of stochastic, planar, electromagnetic sources

Authors

Authors

K. Kim;E. Wolf

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

coherent mode representation; coherence; polarization; electromagnetic; beams; SPACE-FREQUENCY DOMAIN; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE; PARTIAL COHERENCE; POLARIZATION; BEAMS; PROPAGATION; STATE; SPECTRUM; FIELDS; Optics

Abstract

A very useful theoretical tool for investigating coherence properties of stochastic scalar sources and stochastic scalar fields is the so-called coherent-mode representation. We introduce a somewhat similar new representation for planar, secondary stochastic electromagnetic sources which generate beams. It consists of three expansions for the three independent elements of the 2 x 2 electric cross-spectral density matrix of the beam. The expansion of the diagonal elements of the matrix are coherent-mode representations in the sense of the scalar theory. The third one, for each off-diagonal element, is a bi-modal expansion, expressed in terms of the coherent modes of the diagonal elements. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

261

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

19

Last Page

22

WOS Identifier

WOS:000236864000004

ISSN

0030-4018

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