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Moments of the Wigner distribution of rotationally symmetric partially coherent light

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Abstract

The Wigner distribution of rotationally symmetric partially coherent light is considered, and the constraints for its moments are derived. Although all odd-order moments vanish, these constraints lead to a drastic reduction in the number of parameters that we need to describe all even-order moments: whereas in general we have N+1N+2N+3/6 different moments of order N, this number reduces to 1+N/22 in the case of rotational symmetry. A way to measure the moments as intensity moments in the output planes of (generally anamorphic) fractional Fourier-transform systems is presented.

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