Download or read book Contributions to the Theories of Coherence and Polarization of Light written by Mayukh Lahiri and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this thesis, coherence and polarization properties of stochastic optical fields are investigated. The so-called cross-spectral density matrices of polarized and natural light beams are studied. It is shown how coherence and polarization properties of stochastic beams change on superposition. The relationship between the so-called space-time and space-frequency descriptions of completely polarized fields and of completely coherent fields are investigated. An inverse scattering problem involving a random medium is discussed. In this context, the condition which ensures that a beam retains its beam-like form on scattering, is also presented. Basic polarization properties of light beams are discussed based on quantum mechanical theory of fields. A quantum theory of optical coherence in the space-frequency domain is also presented"--Leaf ix