Publication: Degree of polarization of type-II unpolarized light
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2007-05-07
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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.
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©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.
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