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We offer a tentative contribution to the solution of problems that involve the use of nonstationary fields, based on the idea that the light spectrum of a nonstationary source can be considered an ensemble of correlated monochromatic components. We then apply this idea, considering that a reciprocal correspondence exists for the coherence of light in the space-time domain and the coherence of the monochromatic components of a source in the space-frequency domain.
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M. Bertolotti, A. Ferrari, L. Sereda, Coherence properties of nonstationary polychromatic light sources, J.Opt.Soc. Am. B, 12: 341 (1995).
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Sereda, L., Ferrari, A., Bertolotti, M. (1996). On the Partial Coherence Theory for Nonstationary Light. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_215
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