Coherent Illumination?

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Tom Dimiduk

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Jul 26, 2011, 11:28:11 AM7/26/11
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Does adda implicitly assume an incoherent incident wave? I would like
to compute scattering values to compare with digital holograms which I
capture with coherent illumination, so I would like to be able to
simulate scattering with a coherent incident wave. I could not find any
reference to coherence of the incident wave in either the manual or the
most prominently referenced papers.

Thanks,
Tom

Maxim Yurkin

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Jul 26, 2011, 11:51:11 AM7/26/11
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ADDA assumes coherent fully time-periodic monochromatic incident wave, which is either a plane or a Gaussian one. So it
should suit your application.

Maxim.

Tom Dimiduk

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Jul 26, 2011, 11:53:14 AM7/26/11
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Great, that is exactly what I would want. Thanks for the quick reply.
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