Title

Coherence And Polarization Properties Of Electromagnetic Laser Modes

Abstract

A recently formulated mode representation of stochastic electromagnetic fields, based on a unified theory of coherence and polarization is applied to determine the transverse laser resonator modes in any rotationally symmetric cavity. It is found that the electromagnetic modes can be expressed in a simple way in terms of the classic Fox-Li modes of the monochromatic scalar theory; and that, if there is no degeneracy, each mode is completely spatially coherent and its degree of polarization is the same at each point of the cavity mirror. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

9-1-2006

Publication Title

Optics Communications

Volume

265

Issue

1

Number of Pages

60-62

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2006.02.053

Socpus ID

33747134677 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33747134677

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