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Phys Rev Lett. 2005 May 06;94(17):173901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.173901. Epub 2005 May 03.

Complete destructive interference of partially coherent sources of acoustic waves.

Physical review letters

Lorenzo Basano, Pasquale Ottonello

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Fisica Universita' di Genova Via Dodecaneso 33 16146 Italy. [email protected]

PMID: 15904290 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.173901

Abstract

Theoretical analysis has recently shown that the optical fields from several point sources may exhibit complete destructive interference even if the sources are not fully coherent with respect to each other. The experimental verification of this statement in the optical domain is not easy. In this Letter we demonstrate the effect using acoustical waves instead of light waves.

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