• DocumentCode
    415488
  • Title

    Coherence is a relative property

  • Author

    Heydari, Hoshang ; Björk, Gunnar

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microelectronics & Information Technol., R. Inst. of Technol., Kista, Sweden
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    361
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7733-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314218
  • Filename
    1314218