Title
Can two planar sources with the same sets of Stokes parameters generate beams with different degrees of polarization?
Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Lett.
Keywords
ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS; INTERFERENCE PATTERN; COHERENCE; PROPAGATION; STATE; LIGHT; Optics
Abstract
It is shown that two stochastic electromagnetic beams that propagate from the source plane z=O into the half-space z > 0 may have different degrees of polarization throughout the half-space, even though they have the same sets of Stokes parameters in the source plane. This fact is due to a possible difference in the coherence properties of the field in that plane, but other reasons are also possible. The result is illustrated by an example. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.
Journal Title
Optics Letters
Volume
31
Issue/Number
20
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
3025
Last Page
3027
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0146-9592
Recommended Citation
"Can two planar sources with the same sets of Stokes parameters generate beams with different degrees of polarization?" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 6534.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/6534
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