Applications of the Wigner distribution function to partially coherent light beams

Martin J. Bastiaans

doi:10.1117/12.346768

29 April 1999 Applications of the Wigner distribution function to partially coherent light beams

Martin J. Bastiaans

Proceedings Volume 3729, Selected Papers from International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics '98; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.346768
Event: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics, 1998, Dehradun, India

Abstract

The paper presents a review of the Wigner distribution function--its definition and its most important properties-- and of some of its applications to optical problems, in particular to the description of partially coherent light beams and to the propagation of such light beams through first-order optical ABCD-systems. Special attention is paid to Gaussian beams and to second-order moments of general, partially coherent light.

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Martin J. Bastiaans "Applications of the Wigner distribution function to partially coherent light beams", Proc. SPIE 3729, Selected Papers from International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics '98, (29 April 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.346768

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