Intensity fluctuations and degree of polarization in three-dimensional thermal light fields.
The normalized intensity fluctuations of arbitrary electromagnetic wave fields obeying Gaussian statistics are expressed in terms of the three-dimensional degree of polarization. This general formulation implies an important physical result concerning the polarization of planar fields and the dimensionality of the formalism. The results are expected to be particularly useful in intensity interferometry.
Setälä
Tero
T
Department of Engineering Physics and Mathematics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2200, FI-02015 HUT, Finland. tero.setala@hut.fi
Lindfors
Klas
K
Kaivola
Matti
M
Tervo
Jani
J
Friberg
Ari T
AT