Differences between partial polarizations in the space-time and space-frequency domains

Tero Setälä; Ferdinando Nunziata; Ari T Friberg

doi:10.1364/OL.34.002924

Differences between partial polarizations in the space-time and space-frequency domains

Opt Lett. 2009 Oct 1;34(19):2924-6. doi: 10.1364/OL.34.002924.

Authors

Tero Setälä¹, Ferdinando Nunziata, Ari T Friberg

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Physics, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), P.O. Box 3500, FI-02015 TKK, Finland. tero.setala@tkk.fi

PMID: 19794769
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.002924

Abstract

The time-domain degree of polarization of a stationary, random optical beam, in general, differs from that in the frequency domain. We elucidate the origin of their differences and consider several examples in which the two degrees of polarization either are or are not the same.