Eikonal Representation of Partially Coherent Fields in Geometrical Optical Systems
作者
Adam M. Zysk,John C. Schotland,P. Scott Carney
出处
期刊:Frontiers in Optics [Optica Publishing Group] 日期:2005-01-01卷期号:: FThK4-FThK4
标识
DOI:10.1364/fio.2005.fthk4
摘要
We present a method to treat partially coherent fields in the context of geometrical optics. Propagation of statistically independent modes that obey an Eikonal equation can be analyzed via simple ray-tracing methods.