http://dspace-roma3.caspur.it:80 The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. 2013-05-26T04:19:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/2307/224 <Title>Synthesis of electromagnetic Schell-model sources</Title> <Authors>Santarsiero, Massimo; Borghi, Riccardo; Ramirez-Sanchez, Victoria</Authors> <Issue Date>2009-05-26</Issue Date> <Is part of>Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics, image science and vision</Is part of> <Volume>26</Volume> <Pages>1437-1443</Pages> <Abstract>A procedure for the synthesis of the most general electromagnetic Schell-model light source is proposed. It makes use of the generalized van Cittert-Zernike theorem to produce the electromagnetic sourcestarting from a primary spatially incoherent source, characterized by asuitable position-dependent polarization matrix. By resorting to the spectral decomposition of the polarization matrix, it is shown how such an incoherent source can be synthesized by using a Mach-Zehnderinterferometer, with suitable amplitude transmittances placed in its arms, fed by two mutually uncorrelated laser beams. Examples are givenfor the case of electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model sources. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America</Abstract> 2009-05-25T22:00:00Z