Title
Can Two Planar Sources With The Same Sets Of Stokes Parameters Generate Beams With Different Degrees Of Polarization?
Abstract
It is shown that two stochastic electromagnetic beams that propagate from the source plane z=0 into the half-space z>0 may have different degrees of polarization throughout the half-space, even though they have the same sets of Stokes parameters in the source plane. This fact is due to a possible difference in the coherence properties of the field in that plane, but other reasons are also possible. The result is illustrated by an example. © 2006 Optical Society of America.
Publication Date
10-15-2006
Publication Title
Optics Letters
Volume
31
Issue
20
Number of Pages
3025-3027
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.31.003025
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
33750530205 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33750530205
STARS Citation
Salem, Mohamed; Korotkova, Olga; and Wolf, Emil, "Can Two Planar Sources With The Same Sets Of Stokes Parameters Generate Beams With Different Degrees Of Polarization?" (2006). Scopus Export 2000s. 7895.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/7895