An intuitive introduction to the concept of spatial coherence
Optics
2014-08-19 v1 Physics Education
Abstract
The concept of spatial coherence is usually hard to be understood the first time that it is studied. We propose here a fully intuitive geometric description that does not contain mathematical difficulties and permits to understand how a Young Fringes system is obtained with a source not spatially coherent. It is based in a very simple experiment that permits the detection of spatial coherence in a scene. Experimental results are shown.
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@article{arxiv.1408.3820,
title = {An intuitive introduction to the concept of spatial coherence},
author = {Héctor Rabal and Nelly L. Cap and Eduardo Grumel and Marcelo Trivi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.3820},
year = {2014}
}