Abstract
We generalize the concept of Fraunhofer diffraction to partially coherent electromagnetic beams and show how the state of polarization is affected by a circular aperture. It is illustrated that the far-zone properties of a random beam can be tuned by varying the aperture radius. We find that even an incident beam that is completely unpolarized can sometimes produce a field that is highly polarized.
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