Relationship between complete coherence in the space-time and in the space-frequency domains

Mayukh Lahiri1, Emil Wolf

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA. mayukh@pas.rochester.edu

Physical Review Letters
|September 28, 2010
PubMed

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