Coherent light wave generated from incoherent pump light in nonlinear Kerr medium

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2059-2063 (2009)
• Yan, Yan; Yang, Changxi
• We show theoretically and numerically that in an instantaneous-response Kerr medium, a coherent signal light can be generated spontaneously from an incoherent pump light in the...

Focusing of spatially inhomogeneous partially coherent, partially polarized electromagnetic fields

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2470-2479 (2009)
• Foreman, Matthew R; Török, Peter
• We report a general framework capable of describing the focusing of electromagnetic waves with spatially varying coherence and polarization properties in optical systems of arbitrary...

On a class of electromagnetic diffraction-free beams

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2275-2281 (2009)
• Borghi, Riccardo; Gori, Franco; Ponomarenko, Sergey A
• We present a general theory of electromagnetic diffraction-free beams composed of uncorrelated Bessel modes. Our approach is based on the direct application of the nonnegativity...

Effects of coherence and polarization on the coupling of stochastic electromagnetic beams into optical fibers

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2452-2458 (2009)
• Salem, Mohamed; Agrawal, Govind P
• We study the problem of coupling an electromagnetic beam of any state of coherence and polarization into a multimode optical fiber. Using the well-known concept of the cross-spectral...

Definition and invariance properties of the complex degree of spatial coherence

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2459-2465 (2009)
• Castañeda, Román; Carrasquilla, Juan; Garcia-Sucerquia, Jorge
• Within the framework of the phase-space representation of random electromagnetic fields provided by electromagnetic spatial coherence wavelets, and by using the Fresnel-Arago laws...

Effect of input spectrum on the spectral switch characteristics in a white-light Michelson interferometer

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2592-2599 (2009)
• Brundavanam, Maruthi M; Viswanathan, Nirmal K; Rao, D Narayana
• We report here a detailed experimental study to demonstrate the effect of source spectral characteristics such as spectral bandwidth (Δλ), peak wavelength (λ₀), and shape...