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Azimuthal polarization and partial coherence
Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2003Partially coherent fields with the electric field parallel to the azimuthal coordinate are analyzed by use of the exact angular spectrum representation. The known results for fully coherent fields are used to find the permitted forms of azimuthally polarized, partially coherent fields.
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Extracting coherent modes from partially coherent wavefields
Optics Letters, 2009Blank
Nugent, Keith A. +3 more
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Self-focusing of a partially coherent beam with circular coherence
Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2017In a recent publication [Opt. Lett.42, 1512 (2017)OPLEDP0146-959210.1364/OL.42.001512], a novel class of partially coherent sources with circular coherence was introduced. In this paper, we examine the propagation behavior of the spectral density and the spectral degree of spatial coherence of a beam generated by such a source in free space and in ...
Chaoliang Ding +3 more
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Twisting partially coherent light
Optics Letters, 2018Twisted Gaussian Schell-model beams were introduced 25 years ago as a celebrated example of a "genuinely two-dimensional" partially coherent wavefield. Today, a definite answer about the effect that a twist phase should produce on an arbitrary cross-spectral density has not yet been reached. In the present Letter, the necessary and sufficient condition
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The Structure of Partially Coherent Fields
2010The general framework of optical coherence theory is now well established and has been described in numerous publications. This chapter provides an overview of recent advances, both theoretical and experimental, that have been made in a number of areas of classical optical coherence.
Gbur, G., Visser, T.D.
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Basic theory of partial coherence
Proceedings of the April 26-28, 1966, Spring joint computer conference on XX - AFIPS '66 (Spring), 1966The structure for a fundamental treatment of image formation problems already exists in the formalism of modern coherence theory as introduced by Wolf. An adequate introduction to the subject is provided by Born and Wolf, (Chap. 10), and a detailed description of most of the results of the theory to date may be found in Beran and Parrent.
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Coherent-Mode Representation of Partially Coherent and Partially Polarized Optical Fields
Frontiers in Optics 2007/Laser Science XXIII/Organic Materials and Devices for Displays and Energy Conversion, 2007The coherent-mode representation of partially coherent, partially polarized optical field is defined on the basis of the unified theory of coherence and polarization. An example of the coherent-mode representation of the imaging process is given.
Andrey S. Ostrovsky +1 more
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Partial Coherence and Entanglement
Frontiers in Optics 2004/Laser Science XXII/Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics/Optical Fabrication and Testing, 2004The two-photon wave function that characterizes light in a two-photon entangled state obeys equations similar to the Wolf equations describing the mutual coherence function. A duality between coherence and entanglement has been established, and a van Cittert-Zernike theorem is applicable.
Bahaa E. A. Saleh +2 more
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Doubly positive functions in coherent and partially coherent optics
Optics Letters, 2017A function is said to be doubly positive if it is everywhere non-negative and the same holds true for its Fourier transform. After discussing applications to coherent and partially coherent fields, we present examples and properties of such functions together with procedures to devise classes of them.
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When discussing the theory of interference and diffraction of waves, one usually assumes that the fields remain perfectly sinusoidal for all values of time. This is obviously an idealized situation and we know that the radiation from an ordinary light source consists of finite* size wave trains, a typical time variation of which is shown in Fig.
Ajoy K. Ghatak, K. Thyagarajan
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When discussing the theory of interference and diffraction of waves, one usually assumes that the fields remain perfectly sinusoidal for all values of time. This is obviously an idealized situation and we know that the radiation from an ordinary light source consists of finite* size wave trains, a typical time variation of which is shown in Fig.
Ajoy K. Ghatak, K. Thyagarajan
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