Optical Physicist Publishes on Optical Coherence and Polarization

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Emil Wolf, Wilson Professor of Optical Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester, and co-author of one of the most cited science books of the 20th century, Principles of Optics, has released a new book detailing light's coherence and polarization.


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