Standing Light Waves; Repetition of an Experiment by Wiener, Using a Photoelectric Probe Surface

Ives, Herbert E.; Fry, Thornton C.

doi:10.1364/josa.23.000073

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“…However, as soon as two counter traveling waves are considered, the situation is quite different. Wiener [5] and Ives [6] studied light standing waves at a reflecting surface. Silvertooth [7] reports on the construction of a light standing wave sensor.…”

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Standing waves in fiber-optic interferometers

Haan¹,

Santbergen

Tijssen

et al. 2011

Appl. Opt.

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A study is presented giving the response of three types of fiber-optic interferometers by which a standing wave through an object is investigated. The three types are a Sagnac, Mach-Zehnder and MichelsonMorley interferometer. The response of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is similar to the Sagnac interferometer. However, the Sagnac interferometer is much harder to study because of the fact that one input port and output port coincide. Further, the Mach-Zehnder interferometer has the advantage that the output ports are symmetric, reducing the systematic effects. Examples of standing wave light absorption in several simple objects are given. Attention is drawn to the influence of standing waves in fiber-optic interferometers with weak-absorbing layers incorporated. A method is described for how these can be theoretically analyzed and experimentally measured. Further experiments are needed for a thorough comparison between theory and experiment.

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Standing waves in fiber-optic interferometers

Haan¹,

Santbergen

Tijssen

et al. 2011

Appl. Opt.

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“…Double-slit experiment 9 Double-slit experiments [1,2], along with experiments involving standing waves [48][49][50][51], are direct and evident "demonstrations" of the wave-particle duality of light and the related paradox.…”

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“…Multiplying expression (115) by the Planck constant and using expression (50), which is valid for the portion of the planar electron wave that has an electric charge equal to e  , we obtain the Heisenberg uncertainty relation (3):…”

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“…This is done, on the one hand, to avoid confusion between the designations of the 50 wave characteristics of electromagnetic and electron waves and on the other hand, to clearly (as is habitual for all notations) to show how a law of the elastic collisions of "photons" and "electron" appears, which is the basis for the traditional explanation of the Compton effect.…”

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Quantum mechanics without quanta: the nature of the wave–particle duality of light

Rashkovskiy¹

2015

Quantum Stud.: Math. Found.

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In this paper, I argue that light is a continuous classical electromagnetic wave, while the observed so-called quantum nature of the interaction of light with matter is connected to the discrete (atomic) structure of matter and to the specific nature of the light-atom interaction. From this point of view, the Born rule for light is derived, and the double-slit experiment is analysed in detail. I show that the double-slit experiment can be explained without using the concept of a "photon", solely on the basis of classical electrodynamics. I show that within this framework, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for a "photon" has a simple physical meaning not related to the fundamental limitations in accuracy of the simultaneous measurement of position and momentum or time and energy. I argue also that we can avoid the paradoxes connected with the wave-particle duality of the electron if we consider some classical wave field -"an electron wave" -instead of electrons as the particles and consider the wave equations (Dirac, Klein-Gordon, Pauli and Schrödinger) as the field equations similar to Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field. It is shown that such an electron field must have an electric charge, an intrinsic angular momentum and an intrinsic magnetic moment continuously distributed in the space. It is shown that from this perspective, the double-slit experiment for "electrons", the Born rule, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the Compton effect all have a simple explanation within classical field theory. The proposed perspective allows consideration of quantum mechanics not as a theory of particles but as a classical field theory similar to Maxwell electrodynamics.

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“…Optical standing waves were detected by Wiener [1], Ives [2], and Jäger [3] by reflecting light to a surface. A standing wave sensor based on a thin absorbing layer in a vacuum photo-multiplier tube was constructed and successfully tested by Silvertooth [4].…”

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Responses of simple optical standing wave sensors

Haan¹,

Santbergen

Tijssen

et al. 2012

Appl. Opt.

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Optical standing wave sensors have been manufactured by amorphous silicon deposition. The responses of these sensors, when subjected to standing waves, have been calculated and measured. It is shown that the responses are different depending on the way the standing wave is created. The responses also depend on the thickness and material properties of the layers used to create the sensors. Quantitative agreement between measurements and model calculations can be obtained by including alignment errors, incoherent light interaction and scaling factors. The simple construction of the sensors allows for a broad application range.

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Standing Light Waves; Repetition of an Experiment by Wiener, Using a Photoelectric Probe Surface

Cited by 31 publications

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Standing waves in fiber-optic interferometers

Standing waves in fiber-optic interferometers

Quantum mechanics without quanta: the nature of the wave–particle duality of light

Responses of simple optical standing wave sensors

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