Average Number of Coherent Modes for Pulse Random Fields
arXiv:physics/9712011 · doi:10.1117/12.295671
Abstract
Some consequences of spatio-temporal symmetry for the deterministic decomposition of complex light fields into factorized components are considered. This enables to reveal interrelations between spatial and temporal coherence properties of wave. An estimation of average number of the decomposition terms is obtained in the case of statistical ensemble of light pulses.
LaTeX, 10 pages, no figures; to be published in Proc. SPIE; E-mail: [email protected]