Yup. Eons ago I took a class on video production. One thing the instructor made clear from early on is pure color does not exist in nature. Nothing anyone's come up with to point the camera at produced a pure signal. This was before the days of digital where you can simply read the RGB codes of any pixel. A lot of stuff is so much easier these days (for you youngsters: video tape uses a helical scan system, the read and write heads are based on the assumption that the tape is moving across the head at a constant speed--you can't produce a clear image if there's any spin-up or spin-down going on. Thus the machine would spin up and synchronize both source tapes and switch from one to the other (or fade or such) during the vsync period. Careful planning, and you had to plan all your edits to minimize the number of times you copied stuff as the quality would go down a bit every time) but everything outside the electronics remains basically unchanged.
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Lasers do. Pure and coherent.