Abstract

In a demonstration of the advantages of charge-coupled device detectors in the undergraduate laboratory the Thompson and Wolf experiment on the effect of partial coherence on fringe visibility was repeated. Confirmation of the van Cittert–Zernike theorem to a few percent accuracy was attained.

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