Departmental Papers (BE)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
July 2005
Abstract
A method is presented for computing the cross-spectral density of a special class of partially coherent fields in which the coherent modes obey an eikonal equation. This method allows for statistical analysis of optical systems based on simple ray tracing.
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Date Posted: 10 November 2006
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Copyright American Physical Society. Reprinted from Physical Review Letters, Volume 95, Issue 4, Article 043904, 2005, 4 pages.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.043904