Title

Determination Of The Coherency Matrix Of A Broadband Stochastic Electromagnetic Light Beam

Keywords

Coherency matrix; Polarization; Spectral density matrix

Abstract

The statistical ensemble of a fluctuating, statistically-stationary electromagnetic light beam is presented in terms of a 2 × 2 matrix, so-called coherency matrix. The method to determine such matrix for a quasi-monochromatic light beam has been proposed for many years. In this paper, we demonstrate that the method needs to be only slightly modified to determine the matrix elements of a broadband stochastic electromagnetic light beam, if one uses the representation of statistical wave fields in the space-frequency domain. The implementation of the method is demonstrated, and the coherency matrix measurement is validated using a well-defined elliptically polarized beam.

Publication Date

10-1-2008

Publication Title

Journal of Modern Optics

Volume

55

Issue

17

Number of Pages

2765-2776

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340802169553

Socpus ID

54349121045 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/54349121045

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