Title

Changes in statistics of the instantaneous Stokes parameters of a quasi-monochromatic electromagnetic beam on propagation

Authors

Authors

O. Korotkova

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

POLARIZATION; FIELDS; Optics

Abstract

The changes in the probability density functions (PDFs) are discussed, of the instantaneous Stokes parameters of a quasi-monochromatic electromagnetic beam propagating in free space. Such changes may be caused by correlations between the components of the electric field at a pair of points in the source plane. When the fluctuations of the electric field are governed by Gaussian statistics the PDFs of the instantaneous Stokes parameters at any distance from the source are completely determined by the two-point correlation properties of the field in the source plane. These results can be used for synthesis of sources generating random beams with prescribed statistical properties. They also may find applications in remote sensing, tomography and communications with partially coherent and partially polarized light. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

261

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

218

Last Page

224

WOS Identifier

WOS:000237403500004

ISSN

0030-4018

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