Abstract
Electromagnetic fields of any level of coherence, polarization, or directional spread are described exactly by Wigner-like representations in direction and angular momentum, leading to an efficient scheme for propagating coherence and polarization through optical systems.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Andrey S. Ostrovsky and Paulo C. Romero-Soría
FThN4 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2007
Jonathan C. Petruccelli and Miguel A. Alonso
FTuS5 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2007
Greg Gbur and Olga Korotkova
JTh5A.28 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2021