Experimental tests of radiative transfer incorporating statistical optics using blackbody sources

YuPin Sun; Roland Winston; Joseph J. O'Gallagher; Keith A. Snail

doi:10.1117/12.448817

19 November 2001 Experimental tests of radiative transfer incorporating statistical optics using blackbody sources

YuPin Sun, Roland Winston, Joseph J. O'Gallagher, Keith A. Snail

Proceedings Volume 4446, Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer VI; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.448817
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We experimentally tested the operator formalism of radiative transfer on the response of an instrument to partially coherent wavefield produced by radiation emitted by distant and extended blackbody sources. The predictions of the formalism are found to agree well with the experiments. Phase space parameters are identified that characterize a measurement as well as indicating when the formalism will be useful, when we are not in the regime of geometrical optics or plane wave diffraction.

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YuPin Sun, Roland Winston, Joseph J. O'Gallagher, and Keith A. Snail "Experimental tests of radiative transfer incorporating statistical optics using blackbody sources", Proc. SPIE 4446, Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer VI, (19 November 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.448817

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