TY - JOUR AU - Luis Aina, Alfredo PY - 2007 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.053806 SN - 1050-2947 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51492 T2 - Physical review A 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.,... LA - eng M2 - 053806_1 PB - American Physical Society KW - Kullback relative entropy KW - Wigner function KW - Optical waves KW - Phase-space KW - Gaussian fluctuations KW - Quantum localization KW - Nonclassical states KW - Coherent states KW - Uncertainty KW - Fields TI - Degree of polarization of type-II unpolarized light TY - journal article VL - 75 ER -