coherent light
Americannoun
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Even partially coherent light sources can produce correlated photon pairs, while also transferring some of their own coherence properties to the generated photons.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
His work centers on miniaturizing mode-lock lasers -- a unique laser that emits a train of ultrashort, coherent light pulses in femtosecond intervals, which is an astonishing quadrillionth of a second.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
Single-wavelength coherent light from a laser produces a well-defined interference pattern on a piece of film.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
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
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 Garrett, Randall
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