Propagation properties of stochastic electromagnetic non-uniformly correlated partially coherent pulses in dispersive media

Abstract

The scalar model of non-uniformly correlated partially coherent pulses is extended to the full electromagnetic domain and the realizability conditions of stochastic electromagnetic non-uniformly correlated partially coherent (SENUC) pulse sources in the frequency domain are derived. It is shown that the evolution properties of the intensity and degree of polarization (DOP) of the SENUC pulse in dispersive media in the frequency domain are much different from those of an SENUC pulse in the temporal domain. And the distribution of the intensity and DOP of the pulse on propagation is dependent on its spectral coherence width, shift parameters of the spectral correlation maximum and second-order dispersion coefficient.