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Introduction

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Within the classical framework, light is an electromagnetic wave composed by the superposition of wave contributions generated by random processes. As such, light must be treated as an stochastic process itself.

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Cámara, A. (2015). Introduction. In: Optical Beam Characterization via Phase-Space Tomography. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19980-1_1

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