Overall degree of coherence for vectorial electromagnetic fields and the Wigner function.
We elaborate the overall degree of coherence for vectorial electromagnetic waves within paraxial approximation, expressing it in terms of a polarization Wigner function and the spatial-angular Stokes parameters.
Luis
Alfredo
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Departamento de Optica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. alluis@fis.ucm.es