Development of polarization speckle based on random polarization phasor sum

Chunmei Zhang, Sean Horder, Tim K. Lee, Wei Wang

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Abstract

The random walk approach has been extended and applied to study the development of polarization speckle by taking the vector nature into account for stochastic electric fields. Based on the random polarization phasor sum, the first and second moments of the Stokes parameters of the resultant polarization speckle have been examined. Under certain assumptions about the statistics of the component polarization phasors that make up the sum, we present some of the details of the spatial derivation that leads to the expressions for the degree of polarization and the newly proposed Stokes contrast which are suitable for describing the polarization speckle development. This vectorial extension of the random walk will provide an intuitive explanation for the development of the polarization speckle.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)277-282
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the Optical Society of America A
Volume36
Issue number2
Early online date31 Jan 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2019

Keywords

  • Probability theory
  • stochastic processes
  • and statistics
  • Speckle
  • Statistical optics
  • Polarimetric imaging

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