Title

Correlations between intensity fluctuations in stochastic electromagnetic beams of any state of coherence and polarization

Authors

Authors

T. Shirai;E. Wolf

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

Optics

Abstract

A formula is derived for the correlation between intensity fluctuations at two points in the cross-section of a wide class of stochastic electromagnetic beams of any state of coherence and polarization. The formula is of particular interest in connection with the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect. The analysis leads to the introduction of a generalization of the degree of polarization which, unlike the usual degree of polarization, depends on position of two field points and reduces to the usual degree of polarization when the two points coincide. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

272

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

289

Last Page

292

WOS Identifier

WOS:000244969300002

ISSN

0030-4018

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