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  • Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest
  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009),
  • paper FWU4
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2009.FWU4

Spatial coherence properties of monochromatic electromagnetic beams and of laser modes

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Abstract

We show that, contrary to common belief, monochromatic light beams may not be spatially completely coherent. We cite experiments with laser modes which confirm this result.

© 2009 Optical Society of America

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