Abstract
It was shown recently that the basic properties of a fluctuating electromagnetic beam can be derived from knowledge of a cross-spectral density matrix of the electric field in the source plane. However, not every such matrix represents a source that will generate a beamlike field. We derive conditions that the matrix must satisfy for the source to generate an electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model beam.
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