1. Diels, J.-C., Rudolph, W.: Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications on a Femtosecond Time Scale. Academic, Boston (1996) (A good source of ultrafast pulse measurement and analysis)
2. Hanbury Brown, R., Twiss, R.Q.: Interferometry of the intensity fluctuations in light. I. Basic theory: the correlation between photons in coherent beams of radiation. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 242, 300–324 (1957) (The classic paper on second-order coherence)
3. Hariharan, P.: Optical Interferometry. Elsevier, Amsterdam (2003) (One of the basic texts in interferometry. It defines the many different interferometric configurations)
4. Hariharan, P.: Optical Holography: Principles, Techniques and Applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1984) (Another basic text by Hariharan, this time on optical holography)
5. Mandel, L., Wolf, E.: Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1995) (This is the definitive reference on optical coherence)