Polarization invariance in beam propagation

    Authors

    E. Wolf

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    FREE-SPACE; Optics

    Abstract

    It has been known for some time that the degree of polarization of a light beam may change on propagation, even in free space. In this Letter we derive sufficiency conditions for the degree of polarization of a beam generated by a uniformly polarized stochastic, electromagnetic source of a wide class to be the same throughout the far zone and in the source plane. (C) 2007 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    32

    Issue/Number

    23

    Publication Date

    1-1-2007

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    3400

    Last Page

    3401

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000252065000010

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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