Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9785674 Optics Communications 2005 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
We show that the degree of polarization for two- and three-dimensional fields can be formulated as a distance between the field correlation matrix and the identity matrix which represents completely unpolarized light. This definition is compared with previous approaches.
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Degree of polarization for three-dimensional fields as a distance between correlation matrices
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