Coherence and polarization properties of far fields generated by quasi-homogeneous planar electromagnetic sources

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作者
Korotkova, O [1 ]
Hoover, BG
Gamiz, VL
Wolf, E
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[1] Univ Cent Florida, CREOL, FPCE, Coll Opt, Orlando, FL 32816 USA
[2] Univ Rochester, Dept Phys & Astron, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[3] Adv Opt Technol, Albuquerque, NM 87198 USA
[4] USAF, Res Lab, Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117 USA
[5] Univ Rochester, Inst Opt, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
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10.1364/JOSAA.22.002547
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
In studies of radiation from partially coherent sources the so-called quasi-homogeneous (QH) model sources have been very useful, for instance in elucidating the behavior of fields produced by thermal sources. The analysis of the fields generated by such sources has, however, been largely carried out in the framework of scalar wave theory. In this paper we generalize the concept of the QH source to the domain of the electromagnetic theory, and we derive expressions for the elements of the cross-spectral density matrix, for the spectral density, the spectral degree of coherence, the degree of polarization, and the Stokes parameters of the far field generated by planar QH sources of uniform states of polarization. We then derive reciprocity relations analogous to those familiar in connection with the QH scalar sources. We illustrate the results by determining the properties of the far field produced by transmission of an electromagnetic beam through a system of spatial light modulators. (c) 2005 Optical Society of America.
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页码:2547 / 2556
页数:10
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