On the Role of Classical Field Time Correlations in Noisy Light Spectroscopy: Color Locking and a Spectral Filter Analogy

Physical concepts which have proven to be of substantial aid in the understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms of noisy light spectroscopy are established and discussed. These physical concepts are extracted from the technique of factorized time correlation diagram analysis. Examples are presented to add concreteness the general discussions of the physical concepts with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering of noisy light serving as a particularly useful example.