Contents

• 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
• Bibliography