On the spatial coherence of laser beams
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 8 (1), 120-125
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/8/1/018
Abstract
The authors examine the dependence of the spatial coherence across the beam of a multimode laser on the type of modes, the distribution of energy among them, and the degree of their statistical correlation.Keywords
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