Effects of coherence on the degree of polarization in a young interference pattern |
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Authors: | Gori Franco Santarsiero Massimo Borghi Riccardo Wolf Emil |
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Affiliation: | Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Roma Tre and CNR-INFM, Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, Italy. gori@uniroma3.it |
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Abstract: | Recent predictions concerning the relationship between the degree of polarization at a typical point of a Young interference pattern and the degree of coherence of the electromagnetic field at the pinholes are tested by a simple experiment. In particular, it is shown that light that is completely unpolarized at the pinholes can become partially polarized across the fringe pattern. |
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