"supercontinuum" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supercontinuum.wav [US] Forms: supercontinua [plural]
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  1. (physics) light having both high spatial coherence and broad spectral bandwidth; i.e. laser light that is not monochromatic

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