Can two planar sources with the same sets of Stokes parameters generate beams with different degrees of polarization?

    Authors

    M. Salem; O. Korotkova;E. Wolf

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    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

    WOS:000241116200024

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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