December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
136 pages
3h 32m
English
The Van Cittert–Zernike theorem describes the character of propagation of mutual intensity function from an incoherent source and thus becomes a very important tool in modern optical imaging. This theorem becomes very important for almost all optical incoherent sources for imaging. This theorem was first demonstrated by Van Cittert and Zernike[47]. This theorem also was used by Takeda et.al[46] to demonstrate coherence holography described in chapter 6 of this book.
In case of quasimonochromatic light[47], the propagation of mutual intensity is given by,
(D.1)
The term represents initial state of coherence ...
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