The book Principles of Optics, first published in 1959 by Max Born and Emil Wolf, drew attention to the importance of coherence in optics. Emil Wolf is responsible for many advances in the theory of optical coherence.
Statistical optics is the study of the properties of random light. Randomness in light arises because of unpredictable fluctuations in the source of light itself or in the medium through which it propagates. Natural light, such as that radiated by a hot object (e.g., the sun) is random in time because it comprises a superposition of emissions from a very large number of atoms that radiate independently, and with different frequencies and phases. Randomness in light can also arise as a result of scattering from ...
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