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The general methods developed in the preceding chapters will be demonstrated now by applying them to the chaotic (Gaussian) field which is the most typical state in nature, to coherent laser light, and to the superposition of coherent and chaotic fields (i.e. of signal and noise).
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Peřina, J. (1984). Special States of the Electromagnetic Field. In: Quantum Statistics of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6248-4_5
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