@article{HenkelJoulainCarminatietal.2000, author = {Henkel, Carsten and Joulain, Karl and Carminati, R{\´e}mi and Greffet, Jean-Jacques}, title = {Spatial coherence of thermal near fields}, year = {2000}, abstract = {We analyze the spatial coherence of the electromagnetic field emitted by a half-space at temperature T close to the interface. An asymptotic analysis allows to identify three different contributions to the cross-spectral density tensor in the near-field regime. It is shown that the coherence length can be either much larger or much shorter than the wavelength depending on the dominant contribution.}, language = {en} }