TY - JOUR AU - Piquero Sanz, Gemma MarĂ­a AU - Gori, Franco AU - Santarsiero, Massimo AU - Simon, Raja AU - Borghi, Riccardo AU - Guattari, Giorgio PY - 2003 DO - 10.1364/JOSAA.20.000078 SN - 0740-3232 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50879 T2 - Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science And Vision AB - 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... LA - eng M2 - 78 PB - Optical Society of America KW - Hermite-Gaussian Modes KW - Laser-Beams KW - Multimode Lasers KW - Light-Beams KW - Propagation KW - Intensity KW - Field KW - Quality KW - Pulses KW - Matrix TI - Coherent-mode decomposition of partially polarized, partially coherent sources TY - journal article VL - 20 ER -