Zysk Adam M, Carney P Scott, Schotland John C
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Jul 22;95(4):043904. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.043904.
A method is presented for computing the cross-spectral density of a special class of partially coherent fields in which the coherent modes obey an eikonal equation. This method allows for statistical analysis of optical systems based on simple ray tracing.