TY  - JOUR
AU  - Luis Aina, Alfredo
PY  - 2012
DO  - 10.1364/OE.20.024686
SN  - 1094-4087
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44587
T2  - Optics express
AB  - We show that metrological resolution in the detection of small phase shifts provides a suitable generalization of the degrees of coherence and polarization. Resolution is estimated via Fisher information. Besides the standard two-beam Gaussian case,...
LA  - eng
M2  - 24686
PB  - The Optical Society Of America
KW  - Complete electromagnetic coherence
KW  - Space-frequency domain
KW  - Kullback relative entropy
KW  - Partially polarized-light
KW  - Youngs fringe visibility
KW  - Unitary transformations
KW  - Maximum visibility
KW  - Fields
KW  - Phase
KW  - Waves
TI  - Fisher information as a generalized measure of coherence in classical and quantum optics
TY  - journal article
VL  - 20
ER  -