Chapter 7 The influence of Young's interference experiment on the development of statistical optics

Progress in Optics

Volumn 50, Issue , 2007, Pages 251-273

  Wolf, Emil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 35748966663     PISSN: 00796638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6638(07)50007-7     Document Type: Review

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