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Old Feb 13, 2008, 09:13 am   #11 (permalink) (top)
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If you have an emitter of coherent radio waves, but you spin the emitter in time with the period of the waves, would an outside observer be able to determine that the waves were coherent? Would it appear that coherent light was being emitted in all directions?
Dear Domino,

Interesting question. I believe the problem was already solved in the eighties and the technology was given a practical application demonstrated in the image below:



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