Title

Changes In Statistics Of The Instantaneous Stokes Parameters Of A Quasi-Monochromatic Electromagnetic Beam On Propagation

Abstract

The changes in the probability density functions (PDFs) are discussed, of the instantaneous Stokes parameters of a quasi-monochromatic electromagnetic beam propagating in free space. Such changes may be caused by correlations between the components of the electric field at a pair of points in the source plane. When the fluctuations of the electric field are governed by Gaussian statistics the PDFs of the instantaneous Stokes parameters at any distance from the source are completely determined by the two-point correlation properties of the field in the source plane. These results can be used for synthesis of sources generating random beams with prescribed statistical properties. They also may find applications in remote sensing, tomography and communications with partially coherent and partially polarized light. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

5-15-2006

Publication Title

Optics Communications

Volume

261

Issue

2

Number of Pages

218-224

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2005.12.078

Socpus ID

33646056685 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33646056685

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