| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1536444 | Optics Communications | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
A Stokes beam is a light beam which is expressible as a superposition of a completely polarized and a completely unpolarized beam. In this note we study coherence properties of a wide class of beams of this kind. The behaviors of the degree of coherence of a Stokes beam produced by a circular planar source are expressed in terms of Lommel functions and theoretical results are illustrated by computed examples.
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Authors
Jing-Shyang Horng, Yajun Li, Emil Wolf,