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Noise in optical measurements

Authors: Jean‐Pierre GOURE, Gérald BRUN

Publication date: March 10, 1997

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2. Optical signal

2.1 Representation of light vibration

Light is an electromagnetic wave and can be represented using an electric field E→ and a magnetic field H→ as functions of the time coordinate t and the space coordinate [15][17] .

  • In the simplest case, that of a plane wave propagating in a vacuum, the fields...

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