Abstract

A radiometric model for the propagation of coherence is formulated, which greatly simplifies the determination of the cross-spectral density and of the spectral degree of coherence of the field at an arbitrary distance from any planar, secondary, quasi-homogeneous source. The radiance function, which plays a central role in this model, satisfies all the postulates of traditional radiometry.

© 1994 Optical Society of America

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