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26.—Recent Light on Optical Interference*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

R. M. Sillitto
R. M. Sillitto
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Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh
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The interpretation of optical interference experiments at low light intensities and with independent light sources is discussed. A new experiment on interference between modulated light beams is described briefly, and its significance is indicated. There are two appendices, one a fuller discussion of the conditions under which interference and intensity correlation may be produced, the other a comment on one aspect of Jánossy and Nagy's discussion (1956) of the feasibility of the alternating slit interference experiment.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 70 , 1972 , pp. 267 - 280
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1972

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