Completeness of coherent-mode eigenfunctions of Schell-model sources
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 9 (9) , 387-389
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.9.000387
Abstract
It is shown that the coherent-mode eigenfunctions (natural modes of oscillation) of any finite Schell-model source form a complete set in Hilbert space of square-integrable functions.Keywords
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