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State the difference between laser light and ordinary light

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Ordinary light is divergent and incoherent whereas laser light is highly directional and coherent. Ordinary light is mostly unpolarized whereas light from a laser is polarized.
Ordinary light is polychromatic ( contains all colors of light) whereas light from a laser is monochromatic.

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