The concept of degree of coherence and i
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F. Zernike
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Article
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1938
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Elsevier Science
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The maximum visibility of the interferences obtainable from two points in a wave field is defined as their degree o/ coherence y. By a simple statistical method general formulae are found for deducing y from illumination 'data. For any extended lightsource y is found equal to the amplitude in a cert