Title
Young'S Interference Experiment With Light Of Any State Of Coherence And Of Polarization
Abstract
A general expression is derived for the electric cross-spectral density matrix of a random electromagnetic beam in an observation plane parallel to the plane of the pinholes in a Young interference experiment when the pinholes are illuminated by light of any state of coherence and of polarization. It is shown that the degree of polarization P in the observation plane may take on values different from those it takes at each pinhole, depending on the value of the degree of coherence of the light incident on the pinholes. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Publication Date
8-15-2005
Publication Title
Optics Communications
Volume
252
Issue
4-6
Number of Pages
268-274
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2005.04.054
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
22544485708 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/22544485708
STARS Citation
Roychowdhury, Hema and Wolf, Emil, "Young'S Interference Experiment With Light Of Any State Of Coherence And Of Polarization" (2005). Scopus Export 2000s. 3804.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/3804