title: Ultrashort pulse coherence properties in coherent linear amplifiers.
abstract: We examine coherence properties of small-area, intrinsically stationary statistical pulses propagating in amplifying media in the vicinity of an optical resonance. Any such medium acts as a coherent linear amplifier, amplifying and reshaping the pulse. We show that an initially nearly incoherent Gaussian Schell-model pulse becomes almost fully coherent and its state of coherence becomes nearly uniform across the temporal profile as the pulse propagates into the amplifying medium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Laleh.mkht@dal.ca
authors.forename: Laleh
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mokhtarpour
authors.forename: Sergey A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ponomarenko