Intrinsic degrees of coherence of partially polarized light: theoretical aspects and applications

François Goudail; Philippe Réfrégier; Antoine Roueff

doi:10.1117/12.796439

22 April 2008 Intrinsic degrees of coherence of partially polarized light: theoretical aspects and applications

François Goudail, Philippe Réfrégier, Antoine Roueff

Proceedings Volume 7008, Eighth International Conference on Correlation Optics; 700802 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.796439
Event: Eighth International Conference on Correlation Optics, 2007, Chernivsti, Ukraine

Abstract

We review some new results about recently proposed intrinsic degrees of coherence of partially polarized light. We show that they can be derived from an invariance principle equivalent to that used to derive the standard degree of coherence of scalar fields. We compare them with the degree of coherence recently proposed by Wolf. We illustrate the difference and the complementarity between these two definitions on a simple example of optical experiment.

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François Goudail, Philippe Réfrégier, and Antoine Roueff "Intrinsic degrees of coherence of partially polarized light: theoretical aspects and applications", Proc. SPIE 7008, Eighth International Conference on Correlation Optics, 700802 (22 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.796439

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