Title

Determination Of The Electric Cross-Spectral Density Matrix Of A Random Electromagnetic Beam

Abstract

It has been shown in a recent publication that in order to calculate the changes which the degree of polarization, the degree of coherence and the spectrum of a random electromagnetic beam undergo as the beam propagates, it is necessary to know the 2 × 2 cross-spectral density matrix of the fluctuating electric field. In this paper, a procedure is described for measuring the four elements of this matrix, with the help of two polarizers and a rotator. The procedure makes use of the Young interference experiment and the recently derived spectral interference law for such beams. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

10-15-2003

Publication Title

Optics Communications

Volume

226

Issue

1-6

Number of Pages

57-60

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2003.07.054

Socpus ID

0141894308 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0141894308

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