%0 Book Section
%T General classification of partially-polarized partially-coherent beams
publisher SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering
%D 2002
%U 0-8194-4727-7
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60796
%X The behaviour of the so-called generalized degree of polarization of partially-coherent partially-polarized beams upon free propagation is investigated. On the basis of this parameter a general classification scheme of partially polarized beams is proposed. The results are applied to certain classes of fields of special interest.
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