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by shbfbcynvdkb 2338 days ago
The light field conceptually belongs to geometric optics. It doesn't involve phase or the wave theory at all. It would be either an input to or output from a phased array.

Phased arrays admittedly use the wave theory in a way which is geometrically simple. Maybe "far field" is the way to describe it.