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Accession Number:
AD0831598
Title:
DEGREES OF FREEDOM OF A MICROWAVE OR OPTICAL WAVEFRONT (DEGRES DE LIBERTE D'UNE SURFACE D'ONDE EN MICROONDE ET EN OPTIQUE).
Corporate Author:
AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY BOSTON MA
Report Date:
1966-03-01
Abstract:
The number of degrees of freedon of a surface S for incoherent radiation taking into account both polarizations was established on the basis of Jeans thermodynamic considerations n1 2pisLambda sq. The number of degrees of freedom of microwave radiation from a surface S coherent, polarized optics was also established using two different methods. This number is n 4pisNu sq. One should note that these two methods are related although the phase is not involved in incoherent radiation. The above considerations are applied to beams of limited spatial extent. Author
Supplementary Note:
Trans. of Applied Optics v4 n10 p1317-9 1965, tr. by William J. Grimes.
Pages:
0010
Contract Number:
AF 19(628)-3880
File Size:
0.00MB
