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Photonics Research
Vol. 5, Issue 3, 156 (2017)

Measurement of the degree of temporal coherence of unpolarized light beams

Lasse-Petteri Leppänen^*, Kimmo Saastamoinen, Ari T. Friberg, and Tero Setälä

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Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland

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