Coherence and the statistics of the phase difference between partially polarized electromagnetic waves |
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Authors: | Alfredo Luis |
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Affiliation: | Departamento de Óptica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain |
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Abstract: | Coherence between two vectorial harmonic light vibrations is analyzed in terms of the statistics of their phase difference. This provides a natural and simple extension of second-order coherence to cover more complicate situations. In particular this assigns large coherence to quantum light states providing the most accurate interferometric measurements allowed by the quantum theory, even if they are incoherent according to the standard second-order approach. |
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Keywords: | Coherence Polarization Interference |
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