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Luis Aina, Alfredo (2007) Degree of polarization of type-II unpolarized light. Physical review A, 75 (5). 053806_1-053806_5. ISSN 1050-2947
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.053806
Abstract
We address a quantitative determination of the degree of polarization of type-II unpolarized light via the computation of the distance between the polarization distribution and the uniform distribution associated with fully unpolarized light (i.e., type-I unpolarized light or natural light). We determine the maximum degree of polarization for type-II unpolarized light and the states reaching it. We show that the degree of polarization can be arbitrarily large, approaching complete polarization for increasing mean photon numbers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | ©2007 The American Physical Society. A.L. acknowledges support from Project No. FIS2004-01814 of the Spanish Dirección General de Investigación del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and Project No. PR1-A/07-15378 of the Universidad Complutense. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Kullback relative entropy; Wigner function; Optical waves; Phase-space; Gaussian fluctuations; Quantum localization; Nonclassical states; Coherent states; Uncertainty; Fields |
| Subjects: | Sciences > Physics > Optics |
| ID Code: | 31347 |
| Deposited On: | 28 Jul 2015 10:18 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2015 10:18 |
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