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5 October 2023 The degree of genuine unpolarization
Sethuraj Karimparambil Raju, Nick Vamivakas
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Proceedings Volume PC12690, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing XI; PC1269005 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676911
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2023, San Diego, California, United States
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An ideal unpolarized light should have random instantaneous polarization states covering the entire Poincare sphere with equal probability. Light beams, which are otherwise known as unpolarized, do not always satisfy this criterion. Wolf’s definition of the degree of polarization cannot account for these differences. Hence, we define the degree of genuine unpolarization (DoGUP)—a metric that assigns a maximum value to the ideal unpolarization and dictates how far an unpolarized field is from the ideal case. To define the DoGUP, we introduce the polarization probability space (PPS) concept and illustrate using a two-mode Fock state.
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Sethuraj Karimparambil Raju and Nick Vamivakas "The degree of genuine unpolarization", Proc. SPIE PC12690, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing XI, PC1269005 (5 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676911
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KEYWORDS
Polarization
Quantum fields
Electric fields
Electromagnetism
Elliptical polarization
Poincare sphere
Quantum coherence
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