Phase-coherence and amplitude-coherence

Acta Physica Polonica B

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2075-2084

  Singh, Ravi S ^a   Prakash, Hari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

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