Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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851070 | Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics | 2011 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
General expressions are derived for the spectral degree of polarization of a beam generated by the superposition of two Gaussian Schell-model (GSM) beams propagating in a turbulent atmosphere by adopting the beam coherence-polarization matrix and Young's interference theory. We analyzed the distance of two beams, atmospheric turbulence intensity, and the location of the imaging plane affect the degree of polarization by numerical calculation. In particular, when the correlation coefficients of x and y components of the electric field are the same (i.e. δxx = δyy), the degree of polarization will obtain the same value.
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Authors
Yuanguang Wang, Congfang Si, Yixin Zhang, Jianyu Wang, Jianjun Jia,