“…Comprehensive reviews of the various aspects of the deterministic inverse problems are available [Ferwerda, 1978;Hoenders, 1978;Schrnidt-Weinrnar, 1978;Ross et al, 1980;Boerner, 1980]. Of more recent interest are the corresponding inverse problems for partially coherent sources or stochastic scatterers (such as fluctuating continua, random distributions of discrete scatterers, or rough surfaces) characterized by correlation functions or statistical distributions rather than by deterministic field amplitudes [Ferwerda, 1978;Ross et al, 1980;Baltes et al, 1978;Jakernan and Pusey, 1980;Selloni, 1980;Goulard and Emrnerman, 1980]. SUMMARY The various inverse problems of statistical optics can be categorized as follows.…”