Coherence and polarization properties of electromagnetic laser modes

    Authors

    E. Wolf

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Commun.

    Keywords

    Optics

    Abstract

    A recently formulated mode representation of stochastic electromagnetic fields, based on a unified theory of coherence and polarization is applied to determine the transverse laser resonator modes in any rotationally symmetric cavity. It is found that the electromagnetic modes can be expressed in a simple way in terms of the classic Fox-Li modes of the monochromatic scalar theory; and that, if there is no degeneracy, each mode is completely spatially coherent and its degree of polarization is the same at each point of the cavity mirror. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Optics Communications

    Volume

    265

    Issue/Number

    1

    Publication Date

    1-1-2006

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    60

    Last Page

    62

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000240221400010

    ISSN

    0030-4018

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