APPLICATION OF THE SPECTRAL REPRESENTATION OF STOCHASTIC-PROCESSES TOTHE STUDY OF NONSTATIONARY LIGHT RADIATION - A TUTORIAL

Authors
BERTOLOTTI M SEREDA L FERRARI A
Citation
M. Bertolotti et al., APPLICATION OF THE SPECTRAL REPRESENTATION OF STOCHASTIC-PROCESSES TOTHE STUDY OF NONSTATIONARY LIGHT RADIATION - A TUTORIAL, Pure and applied optics, 6(2), 1997, pp. 153-171
Citations number
72
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Pure and applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09639659
Volume
6
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
153 - 171
Database
ISI
SICI code
0963-9659(1997)6:2<153:AOTSRO>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Loeve's theory of harmonizable stochastic processes, and in particular their spectral representation, is used to describe the light from non stationary sources. After introducing the general formalism and basic relations, the case of interference with two partially coherent time G aussian-shaped pulsed point sources is discussed, and a criterion for the measurement of spatial coherence of nonstationary sources is given .