Coherence and visibility for vectorial light.
Two-path interference of transversal vectorial waves is embedded within a larger scheme: this is four-path interference between four scalar waves. This comprises previous approaches to coherence between vectorial waves and restores the equivalence between correlation-based coherence and visibility.
Luis
Alfredo
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Departamento de Optica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain. alluis@fis.ucm.es