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Elementary-field expansions of genuine cross-spectral density matrices
Rosario Martínez-Herrero1, Pedro M Mejías
1Departamento de Optica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
A necessary and sufficient nonnegative definiteness condition for the cross-spectral density matrix (CDM) is derived. It is also shown that this realizability condition allows the expansion of genuine CDMs in terms of recently introduced elementary fields, namely, mean-square coherent beams, and fields with position-independent stochastic behavior. The special case of uniformly polarized electromagnetic Schell-model sources is also analyzed.
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