On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:18:37 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:
When you superpose two 100w coherent laser beams, the resultant
power is indeed 400w
Yowza! You, with W's help, can roll your Social Security over into
investments in the CB amplifier Market.
and must be supplied by the sources
[Hecht rolling his eyes] So, this means that Hecht's formula only
works for steady state? :-)
If both are 100W pulses, and the lasers are off before the target are
pulse illuminated -um-
1.) 100W
2.) 200W
3.) 400W
4.) no hundred W
or supplied by destructive interference from somewhere else.
Maybe two more magic lasers?
This is all explained in _Optics_, by Hecht.
Somehow, I don't think so.

How many errors can our readers count?
For N = number of words in orginal posting
errors = N!

Such is the problem of Xerox research.