Generation of highly directional beams from a globally incoherent source

Spectral coherence and the concept of cross-spectral purity*

L. Mandeļ, E. Wolf · Journal of the Optical Society of America · 1976 · 332 citations

Natural Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Optics +16

Coherence and radiometry with quasihomogeneous planar sources*

W. H. Carter, E. Wolf · Journal of the Optical Society of America · 1977 · 295 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Biomedical Optics +13

An example of a Collett-Wolf source

P. De Santis, F. Gori, G. Guattari et al. · Optics Communications · 1979 · 204 citations

Humanities, Entomology, Textual Criticism +1

Is complete spatial coherence necessary for the generation of highly directional light beams?

Edward Collett, E. Wolf · Optics Letters · 1978 · 204 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Optics +16

Partially coherent sources which produce the same far-field intensity distribution as a laser

E. Wolf, Edward Collett · Optics Communications · 1978 · 201 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Optics +13