%0 Journal Article
%A Piquero Sanz, Gemma María
%A Gori, Franco
%A Santarsiero, Massimo
%A Simon, Raja
%A Borghi, Riccardo
%A Guattari, Giorgio
%T Coherent-mode decomposition of partially polarized, partially coherent sources
%D 2003
%@ 0740-3232
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50879
%X 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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