Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics

Topological and statistical approaches describing inhomogeneously polarized light fields
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Angelsky O.V., Polyanskii P.V., Hanson S.G.,Ushenko A.G., Ushenko Yu.A. and Angelskaya A.O.

Keywords: polarization, correlation, biological tissue, statistics, singular optics

PACS: 42.25.Ja, 42.25.Lc, 47.63.Jd, 42.25.Fx.

Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. 8 217-227 doi: 10.3116/16091833/8/4/217/2007
Received: 22.10.2007

Relationships between the topological and statistical approaches for de-scribing inhomogeneously polarized optical fields are considered. It is shown that the correlation length of polarization parameters of the field is comparable with the mean distance between the points with orthogonal states of polarization

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