Download or read book Characterization of Partially Polarized Light Fields written by Rosario Martínez-Herrero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polarization involves the vectorial nature of light fields. In current applications of optical science, the electromagnetic description of light with its vector features has been shown to be essential: In practice, optical radiation also exhibits randomness and spatial non-uniformity of the polarization state. Moreover, propagation through photonic devices can alter the correlation properties of the light field, resulting in changes in polarization. All these vectorial properties have been gaining importance in recent years, and they are attracting increasing attention in the literature. This is the framework and the scope of the present book, which includes the authors’ own contributions to these issues.