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Interference of light Ordinary illumination Interference fringes
... each light packet acts independently the total illumination (the irradiance) is the sum of the irradiance produced Coherence length: 20 by each contributing source symbolically: Itotal = I1 + I2 + I3 + I4 + ….. Temporal coherence: 20 periods ...
... each light packet acts independently the total illumination (the irradiance) is the sum of the irradiance produced Coherence length: 20 by each contributing source symbolically: Itotal = I1 + I2 + I3 + I4 + ….. Temporal coherence: 20 periods ...