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Partial Coherence in modern optics: Emil Wolf's legacy in the 21st century

Optics 2020-01-17 v1

Abstract

We highlight the impact of Emil Wolf's work on coherence and polarization on an ever increasing amount of applications in the 21 st century. We present a brief review of how partial coherence at the level of increasing order of coherence functions is leading to evolution in the better methods for microscopy, imaging, optical coherence tomography; speckle imaging; propagation through random media. This evolution in our capabilities is expected to have wide ramifications in Science and Engineering.

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@article{arxiv.2001.05561,
  title  = {Partial Coherence in modern optics: Emil Wolf's legacy in the 21st century},
  author = {Girish S. Agarwal and Anton Classen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.05561},
  year   = {2020}
}

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In Press at Progress in Optics