coherent light

American  

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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Example Sentences

Even light that has become partially incoherent can still perform useful work, just less effectively than fully coherent light.

From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025

However, maintaining the stable, coherent light needed for such computations at speeds above 10 GHz has proven extremely difficult.

From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 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