Pith Number

pith:3E364RMB

pith:2017:3E364RMBLIVE2ZOKY6YFVADAK3

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A step-by-step guide to reduce spatial coherence of laser light using a rotating ground glass diffuser

Hanqing Zhang, Krister Wiklund, Magnus Andersson, Tim Stangner, Tobias Dahlberg

arxiv:1703.05311 v3 · 2017-03-15 · physics.ins-det · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3E364RMBLIVE2ZOKY6YFVADAK3}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:24.509975Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d937ee45815a2a4d65cac7b05a806056fcc9d865f76a618f8f1ae94b433f66ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05311 · arxiv_version: 1703.05311v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05311 · pith_short_12: 3E364RMBLIVE · pith_short_16: 3E364RMBLIVE2ZOK · pith_short_8: 3E364RMB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3E364RMBLIVE2ZOKY6YFVADAK3 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d937ee45815a2a4d65cac7b05a806056fcc9d865f76a618f8f1ae94b433f66ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76ff032b0f37011a5297dc8977982424d0233a451ca9e962a19ab0801529be52",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-15T07:29:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48a9a17bb081aa56307054a26b54097df36b0988bdb08edd27efb895f758afc8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05311",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}