Correlation-induced changes in the degree of polarization, the degree of coherence, and the spectrum of random electromagnetic beams on propagation.
A method is described, based on a recently formulated unified theory of coherence and polarization, for determining the changes that the degree of polarization, the degree of coherence, and the spectrum of a random electromagnetic beam may undergo as the beam propagates. Propagation in free space as well as in linear media, both deterministic and random, is discussed.
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Emil
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA. ewlupus@pas.rochester.edu