DocumentCode
2717642
Title
Interferometric picture of partial electromagnetic coherence and polarization
Author
Setälä, Tero ; Tervo, Jani ; Friberg, Ari T.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland
fYear
2011
fDate
19-24 June 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We demonstrate a consistent interferometric interpretation for two fundamental features of light: partial electromagnetic coherence and partial polarization. The electromagnetic degree of coherence contains the modulation visibilities of both the intensity fringes and the polarization (Stokes) parameters on two-beam interference, while the degree of polarization amounts simply to the visibility of the polarization state when the beam interferes with itself.
Keywords
light coherence; light interference; light polarisation; optical modulation; Stokes parameter; intensity fringes; optical modulation; partial electromagnetic coherence; partial electromagnetic polarization; two-beam interference; Coherence; Electromagnetics; Interference; Modulation; Optical beams; Optical interferometry; Stokes parameters;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Optics (WIO), 2011 10th Euro-American Workshop on
Conference_Location
Benicassim
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1227-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4577-1225-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WIO.2011.5981453
Filename
5981453
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