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In recent years several attempts have been made [1] to provide a satisfactory basis for the theory of radiative energy transfer in optical fields. The conventional theory [2], on which many investigations in astrophysics and in the field of atmospheric propagation are based, was developed quite independently of modern theories of radiation; consequently its range of validity is not understood at the present time.
Research supported by the Army Research Office.
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References to some of the relevant papers are given in E. Collett, J. T. Foley and E. Wolf, J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 67, 465 (1977).
See, for example, S. Chandrasekhar, Radiative Transfer ( Dover, New York, 1960 ).
E. Wolf, Phys. Rev. D 13, 869 (1976).
M. S. Zubairy and E. Wolf, Opt. Commun. 20, 321 (1977).
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Wolf, E., Zubairy, M.S. (1978). Radiative Energy Transfer in Scalar Wave Fields. In: Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics IV. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0665-9_49
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