Coherent-mode decomposition of partially polarized, partially coherent sources.
It is shown that any partially polarized, partially coherent source can be expressed in terms of a suitable superposition of transverse coherent modes with orthogonal polarization states. Such modes are determined through the solution of a system of two coupled integral equations. An example, for which the modal decomposition is obtained in closed form in terms of fully linearly polarized Hermite Gaussian modes, is given.
Gori
Franco
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Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 1-00146 Rome, Italy.
Santarsiero
Massimo
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Simon
Raja
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Piquero
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Borghi
Riccardo
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Guattari
Giorgio
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