Vol. 44, Issue 1, pp. 147-158 (2014)

Abstract

The analytical expression for the cross-spectral density function of stochastic electromagnetic Bessel–Gauss pulsed beams through a dispersive aperture lens is derived and used to study the changes in the spectral degree of polarization in an optical focus system. The changes in the spectral degree of polarization at the focal plane and on the z-axis are performed in the case of dispersion-free, dispersion of the first, second, and higher orders, respectively. It is shown that the dispersion affects the peak value of the spectral degree of polarization, and the higher order dispersion leads to a more obvious effect on the peak value of the spectral degree of polarization at the focal plane. On the z-axis, the spectral degree of polarization in the dispersion-free case is different form that in the dispersion case, however, the dispersion of different orders almost has the same effect on the spectral degree of polarization. The results obtained in this paper may be crucial for high precision laser detection.