Abstract
New results are derived for the relationship between polarization and coherence in radiometric fields. We consider the vector theory of coherence for thermal radiation emission from a planar, opaque, specular surface held at fixed, uniform temperature, in the asymptotic limit in which a radiometric description of the field is applicable. Three dyadic equations are derived here, which relate the three cross-spectral tensors to the components of the Stokes vector characterizing the polarization state of the field in transport theory. The second-order coherence properties of the radiometric field are determined once the Stokes vector has been specified.
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