MEASUREMENT OF THE DEGREE OF DEPOLARIZATION OF ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZEDLASER-RADIATION

Authors
LAPTEV GD CHIRKIN AS
Citation
Gd. Laptev et As. Chirkin, MEASUREMENT OF THE DEGREE OF DEPOLARIZATION OF ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZEDLASER-RADIATION, Quantum electronics, 27(10), 1997, pp. 929-930
Citations number
5
Journal title
Quantum electronics → ACNP
ISSN journal
10637818
Volume
27
Issue
10
Year of publication
1997
Pages
929 - 930
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7818(1997)27:10<929:MOTDOD>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
It is shown that a systematic error, associated with the anisotropic n ature of natural fluctuations in a laser, is introduced in measurement of the degree of depolarisation of elliptically polarised laser radia tion by a method based on its conversion into linearly polarised radia tion.