title: Correlations of polarization in random electro-magnetic fields.
abstract: Random electromagnetic fields have a number of distinctive statistical properties that may depend on their origin. We show here that when two mutually coherent fields are overlapped, the individual characteristics are not completely lost. In particular, we demonstrate that if assumptions can be made regarding the coherence properties of one of the fields, both the relative average strength and the field correlation length of the second one can be retrieved using higher-order polarization properties of the combined field.
authors.affiliation: CREOL,The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Broky
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dogariu