Publication: Coherent-mode decomposition of partially polarized, partially coherent sources
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2003-01
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It is shown that any partially polarized, partially coherent source can be expressed in terms of a suitable superposition of transverse coherent modes with orthogonal polarization states. Such modes are determined through the solution of a system of two coupled integral equations. An example, for which the modal decomposition is obtained in closed form in terms of fully linearly polarized Hermite Gaussian modes, is given.
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© 2003 Optical Society of America.
One of the authors (G. Piquero) acknowledges support from the project BFM2001-1356.
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