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Coherent Array of White-Light Continuum Generated by Microlens Array

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We generated a white-light continuum array by directing femtosecond laser pulses into a liquid with a microlens array. Experimental evidence demonstrates that the spatial coherence is high within a single light source in the array. We also confirmed that all the light sources in the white-light continuum array are mutually coherent. We found that the simple self-phase modulation model cannot explain this high coherence between the white continuum sources.

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    Wataru Watanabe, Yoshiyasu Masuda, Hidenobu Arimoto & Kazuyoshi Itoh

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Watanabe, W., Masuda, Y., Arimoto, H. et al. Coherent Array of White-Light Continuum Generated by Microlens Array. OPT REV 6, 167–172 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-999-0167-4

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