✦ LIBER ✦
Generalized (two-point) stokes-parameters representation in terms of the radial and azimuthal field components
✍ Scribed by Rosario Martínez-Herrero; Pedro M. Mejías
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0030-3992
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✦ Synopsis
Within the paraxial framework, a generalization of the Stokes representation is introduced in terms of the radial and azimuthal field structure of the beam cross-section. These generalized parameters depend on two spatial variables and are closely related with the cross-spectral density (CSD) matrix of the field. The propagation law of such parameters through general first-order optical systems is also given. It allows to describe, in terms of the radial and azimuthal field components, the coherence and polarization behavior of partially-polarized, partially-coherent beams.