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Contents
Introductory remarks
Introduction to second-order spatial coherence in scalar wavefields
Introduction
Second-order spatial coherence
Propagation of spectral coherence function
Van Cittert-Zernike theorem in space-frequency domain
Propagation of cross-spectral density
Correlation-induced spectral changes
Conclusion
Observations of correlation-induced spectral changes
Introduction
Correlation-induced spectral changes and dispersive diffraction
Formulation of problem
Coherence area
Experiments and numerical calculation
Observations of spectral changes with wavefront folding interferometer
Spectral coherence formed by uncorrelated two point sources
Measurements of spectral coherence
Observations of correlation-induced spectral changes
discussion
Conclusion
Retrieval of 2-D image and spectrum distribution
Introduction
Determination of angular separation and spectra of two point sources
Formulation of principle
Experiment and discussion
Retrieval of cross-spectral density propagating in free space
Propagation and retrieval of cross-spectral density
Numerical calculation
Experimental demonstration
Conclusion
Passive interferometric 3-D imaging and incoherence gating
Introduction
Formulation of principle
Principle of 3-D imaging
Incoherence gating in interferometric imaging
Experimental demonstrations
Experiment of 3-D imaging
Experiment of incoherence gating
Conclusion
Interferometric 3-D imaging and generalized radiance distribution
Introduction
Formulation of principle
Numerical calculation
Experimental demonstration
Conclusion
Noise-limitations of interferometric imaging
Introduction
Theoretical estimation for two noise-limitation cases
Experiments
Conclusion
Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
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Hidenobu ARIMOTO
2000-02-17
