Title

Polarization Invariance In Beam Propagation

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. © 2007 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

12-1-2007

Publication Title

Optics Letters

Volume

32

Issue

23

Number of Pages

3400-3401

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.32.003400

Socpus ID

40149083951 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/40149083951

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