Abstract: Statistical pattern recognition methods based on the Coherence Length Diagram (CLD) have been proposed for medical image analyses, such as quantitative characterization of human skin textures, and for polarized light microscopy of liquid crystal textures. Further investigations are here made on image maps originated from such diagram and some examples related to irregularity and aniso...

The coherence length of the thermal electromagnetic field near a planar surface has a minimum value related to the nonlocal dielectric response of the material. We perform two model calculations of the electric energy density and the field’s degree of spatial coherence. Above a polar crystal, the lattice constant gives the minimum coherence length. It also gives the upper limit to the near fiel...

Previously published results from path integral theory for the horizontal coherence length utilized an empirical relation for the phase structure function density that was quite different from path integral results obtained for depth and time coherence where the phase structure function density was expanded to second order in the lag. This letter presents a result for horizontal coherence lengt...

[Summary] Optical technologies that have so far been restricted to the field of optical communications are now starting to be applied in new fields, especially medicine. Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR) offering fast and accurate target position measurements is one focus of attention. The Wavelength Swept Light Source (WSLS) is said to be one of the key devices of OFDR, whose sweep...

The stability and dynamics of nonlinear Schrödinger superflows past a twodimensional disk are investigated using a specially adapted pseudo-spectral method based on mapped Chebychev polynomials. This efficient numerical method allows the imposition of both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions at the disk border. Small coherence length boundary-layer approximations to stationary solutions a...

In adaptive optics, the measurement of spatial coherence length helps in deciding the optimum design parameters of a Shack Hartmann Sensor (SHS). Two methods of estimating the spatial coherence length of optical wavefronts are presented. The first method is based on counting the number of Hough peaks in the wavefront. The second method is based on a simple data mining technique applied on the w...

An improved description of the critical properties of metallic multilayers is obtained by introducing the concept of a scaled magnetic coherence length in the Takahashi-Tachiki theory. By that, the absolute magnitude of the upper critical fields and the position of the dimensional crossover are uncoupled and become independent quantities. Much better phase diagrams can be obtained by using this...

The control of the coherence properties of laser light is a major success factor in many photonic applications – in areas as diverse as spectroscopy and optical pumping of atoms, nonlinear frequency conversion, interferometry, or laser-based imaging. Established diode laser technology has however only covered individual points of the “coherence length spectrum”. Recently developed electronic te...

Exclusive coherent and incoherent electroproduction of the p° meson from H and N targets has been studied at the HERMES experiment as a function of coherence length (lc), corresponding to the lifetime of hadronic fluctuations of the virtual photon, and squared fourmomentum of the virtual photon (—<2). The ratio of N to *H cross sections per nucleon, called nuclear transparency, was found to inc...

In situ micro-four-point-probe conductivity measurements in ultrahigh vacuum revealed that the Si(111)-striped incommensurate-Pb surface showed the superconductivity transition at 1.1 K. Both of the hexagonal and rectangular phases of Si(111)√[7]×√[3]-In surface showed superconductivity at 2.4 and 2.8 K, respectively. By applying magnetic field perpendicular to the surface, the upper critical f...