Discriminating randomly polarized fields
Abstract
We introduce the scalar average similarity of an ensemble of randomly polarized states. This global measure is based on the complex degree of mutual polarization between any pair of vector fields in the ensemble. We show that, in the case of fully correlated and globally unpolarized fields, the variation of this parameter is bounded, and its value can effectively discriminate between different configurations of pure states.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Mar 24, 2020
- Source ID
- 10.1364/ol.382566
Entities
People
- Aristide Dogariu
- Mahdi Eshaghi
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research