Abstract
It is pointed out that in usual optical interference experiments one does not measure phases of monochromatic light beams as is usually assumed. Rather that one measures a phase of an associated correlation function of a beam; and that, when the beam is spatially fully coherent, as is usually the case, the measured phase may be identified with the phase of an average wave function of the beam.
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