Which optical effect results when non-parallel coherent wavefronts coincide?

💡 Explanation

Decreased spatial fringe localization results from interfering non-parallel coherent waves, because the *interference* creates fringes detectable only within a limited volume defined by the wavefront intersection. Therefore fringe visibility drops, rather than uniform speckle, due to coherence constraints.

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