When it comes to “phase measurement” or “quantitative phase imaging”, many people will
automatically connect them with “laser” and “interferometry”. Indeed, conventional …

Coherence refers to correlations in waves. Because matter has a wave-particle nature, it is
unsurprising that coherence has deep connections with the most contemporary issues in …

An Up-to-Date Compendium on the Physics and Mathematics of Polarization Phenomena
Now thoroughly revised, Polarized Light and the Mueller Matrix Approach cohesively …

It is shown that, under very general conditions, the cross-spectral density of a steady-state
source of any state of coherence may be expressed in terms of certain new modes of …

The quantum statistical properties of radiation represent an important branch of modern
physics with rapidly increasing applications in spectroscopy, quantum generators of …

The non-Hermitian skin effect, ie, eigenstate condensation at the edges in lattices with open
boundaries, is an exotic manifestation of non-Hermitian systems. In Bloch theory, an …

The question is raised as to whether the normalized spectrum of light remains unchanged
on propagation through free space. It is shown that for sources of a certain class that …

Interference and diffraction phenomena of electromagnetic waves are usually described with
the aid of ideally coherent or ideally incoherent light beams. In the first case the amplitudes …

With the recent great expansion in optics and laser applications, several new areas of
research have emerged, among which are: the theory of coherence, photon statistics …

The paper presents a review of the Wigner distribution function (WDF) and of some of its
applications to optical problems, especially in the field of partial coherence. The WDF …