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The volume of coherence has been usually defined as the volume of a right-angled cylinder whose base is the area of coherence and whose height is the coherence length.[1] It is also the volume corresponding to one cell of phase space of photons.[2,3] We shall show in this paper that the former definition can be retained only in some particular cases whereas the latter one describes a greater variety of cases provided the notion of a cell of phase space is adequately specified.
On leave of absence from Institute of Physics, The Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw, Poland.
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Zardecki, A., Delisle, C., Bures, J. (1973). Volume of Coherence. In: Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2034-0_16
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