Abstract

In recent years quasihomogeneous sources¹ have been frequently used as model sources in investigations relating to the behavior of fields generated by sources of different states of coherence. These investigations have provided insight, for example, into questions regarding the relationship between the directionality of optical fields and the spatial coherence properties of their sources and have elucidated the foundations of radiometry. Recently such investigations have helped to clarify some rather basic questions regarding the effects of source coherence on the spectrum of the emitted light.

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