coherent light
Americannoun
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Lasers are commonly used for this purpose because they generate highly coherent light concentrated at a single color.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
A simple assumption would be that the incoming coherent light performs work, while the outgoing light, having lost some coherence, represents heat.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
The answer to this question is that two slits provide two coherent light sources that then interfere constructively or destructively.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Single-wavelength coherent light from a laser produces a well-defined interference pattern on a piece of film.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Then, at the proper moment, a beam of intense coherent light shot out of the tangent that formed the tail of the Q-tube.
From The Foreign Hand Tie by Randall Garrett
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