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Properties and Description of Light

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Light is commonly used in photonic applications such as laser beams with a complex distribution of the intensity as a function of wavelength, space, time and polarization. In addition the coherence properties have to be recognized and sometimes just single photons are used. In this chapter different classifications of these physical properties are described. In nonlinear optical processes these properties have to be recognized carefully, because the nonlinearity may depend on these in a complicated manner.

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