Title

A Scalar-Mode Representation Of Stochastic, Planar, Electromagnetic Sources

Keywords

Coherence; Coherent mode representation; Electromagnetic beams; Polarization

Abstract

A very useful theoretical tool for investigating coherence properties of stochastic scalar sources and stochastic scalar fields is the so-called coherent-mode representation. We introduce a somewhat similar new representation for planar, secondary stochastic electromag netic sources which generate beams. It consists of three expansions for the three independent elements of the 2 × 2 electric cross-spectral density matrix of the beam. The expansion of the diagonal elements of the matrix are coherent-mode representations in the sense of the scalar theory. The third one, for each off-diagonal element, is a bi-modal expansion, expressed in terms of the coherent modes of the diagonal elements. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

5-1-2006

Publication Title

Optics Communications

Volume

261

Issue

1

Number of Pages

19-22

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2005.12.005

Socpus ID

33645886904 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33645886904

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