Title :
Coherence is a relative property
Author :
Heydari, Hoshang ; Björk, Gunnar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microelectronics & Information Technol., R. Inst. of Technol., Kista, Sweden
Abstract :
The paper presents the authors\´ view on the relativity of optical coherence. Fields from two (or more) lasers are relatively coherent but incoherent relative to any other independent laser. Hence, to their view, there is no "true coherence", in contrast to Molmer\´s assertions.
Keywords :
laser theory; light coherence; quantum optics; laser fields; optical coherence; Laser theory; Microelectronics; Oscillators; Stochastic processes; Teleportation; Time measurement; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7733-8
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314218
