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Interference describes different waves superposing to form a resultant wave of greater, lower, or the same amplitude. Normally, it involves interaction of waves that are correlated (coherent) with each other, either because they come from the same source, or because they have the same or nearly the same frequency. Interference effects can be observed with all types of waves, e.g., light, radio, acoustic, surface, or matter waves.

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Why aren't interference patterns wiped out by random phase shifts?

Why don't random phase shifts at the slits wipe out the interference pattern? …
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In phase contrast microscopy, how does the phase difference between the diffracted light and...

Phase contrast microscopy works by exploiting the phase difference between two paths of light which pass through a probe point of a specimen: One path, the "background" path, is the path the light th …
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In phase contrast microscopy, how does the phase difference between the diffracted light and...

The interference is not between two point focussed light sources, but between an unfocused background beam that has an average phase shift over a large area of the specimen and the point-focussed scattered …
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