RT Journal Article
T1 Degree of polarization of type-II unpolarized light
A1 Luis Aina, Alfredo
AB We address a quantitative determination of the degree of polarization of type-II unpolarized light via the computation of the distance between the polarization distribution and the uniform distribution associated with fully unpolarized light (i.e., type-I unpolarized light or natural light). We determine the maximum degree of polarization for type-II unpolarized light and the states reaching it. We show that the degree of polarization can be arbitrarily large, approaching complete polarization for increasing mean photon numbers.
PB American Physical Society
SN 1050-2947
YR 2007
FD 2007-05-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51492
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51492
LA eng
NO ©2007 The American Physical Society. A.L. acknowledges support from Project No. FIS2004-01814 of the Spanish Dirección General de Investigación del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and Project No. PR1-A/07-15378 of the Universidad Complutense.
NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC), España
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 22 mar 2026