Statistical wave-theoretical derivation of the free-space transport equation of radiometry Academic Article

abstract

• We are concerned with the derivation of the free-space form of the radiative transfer equation of traditionalradiometry from statistical wave theory. It is shown that this equation governs the transport of all thegeneralized radiance functions of a wide class, for any field that is generated by a planar, secondary, quasihomogeneoussource, in the asymptotic limit as the wave number k = 2 / . 1992 Optical Society of America.

authors

• Agarwal, Girish

published proceedings

• Journal of the Optical Society of America B

author list (cited authors)

• Friberg, A. T., Agarwal, G. S., Foley, J. T., & Wolf, E.

complete list of authors

• Friberg, Ari T||Agarwal, Girish S||Foley, John T||Wolf, Emil

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4008 Electrical Engineering
• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/josab.9.001386

start page

• 1386

end page

• 1386

volume

• 9

issue

• 8