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In fact, in the reality perfect plane waves do not exist, such waves would have a unique propagation direction and infinite radiant intensity. However, to a very good degree of approximation we can treat the light from a small source as a plane wave if we are far enough away from the source. The light coming from a star represents a very good example of this.

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