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Frontiers in Optics

Interference Fringes from Non-Stationary Light Sources

Joscelyn van der Veen, Daniel F. V. James

Published Jan 1, 2022• 2 citations
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Abstract

We discuss the visibility of Young’s interference fringes for non-stationary fields, such as optical fields considered for a short period of time, and contrast the usefulness of different time-frequency representations to determine this visibility.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2022.jw5a.16

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