Can spatial coherence effects produce a local minimum of intensity at focus?

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 1627-1629

  Gbur, Greg ^a   Visser, Taco D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; LENSES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

SPATIAL COHERENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0141754105     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.001627     Document Type: Article

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