Open AccessSTATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF POLARIZATION STATES OF BROADBAND THERMAL LIGHT
Author(s) -
Liu Pei-Sen,
Qin Ke-Cheng
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.39.735
Subject(s) - broadband , polarization (electrochemistry) , degree of polarization , orthogonal polarization spectral imaging , thermal , physics , optics , laser , chemistry , meteorology , scattering
Starting from the joint statistics of the orthogonal components of the broadband thermal light viberation, which are normal to the propagation direction of light wave, we derive the concept of polarization degree and the joint probability density functions of those two orthogonal components in various polarization states, so that an overall description of polarization of the broadband thermal light is obtained.