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coherent light

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noun

  1. light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.


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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

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

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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