First direct measurement of the spatial coherence of sunlight

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 3516-3518

  Mashaal, Heylal ^a   Goldstein, Alex ^a   Feuermann, Daniel ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE ANTENNAS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; POWER CONVERSION; SMALL SCALE; SOLAR BEAM; SPATIAL COHERENCE;

OPTICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84865794038     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.003516     Document Type: Article

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