The interference phenomena of light at very low intensities

Jánossy, L.; Náray, Zs.

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“…After the second world war, this type of experiments has been resumed again in the mid 1950s by Jánossy and Náray [23]. The interference apparatus was a Michelson interferometer, the spectroscopic line was mercury's green line at 546.1 nm, the detector a photomultiplier tube.…”

Section: Photons Interference and First 'Which Path Measurement'mentioning

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Wave and photon descriptions of light: historical highlights, epistemological aspects and teaching practices

Buonaura

Giuliani

2016

Eur. J. Phys.

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The wave and the photon descriptions of light are discussed in connection with interference and the Doppler effect. Both phenomena can be described in terms of waves or in terms of photons. However, the two descriptions are not equivalent. While the photon description deals with a single photon, the wave one deals with the behaviour of many (enough) photons. The wave description’s predictions are in agreement with experiment only when the high number of photons used (one at a time or all together) overshadows their spatially localised interaction with the detectors. These arguments are dealt with on the basis of historical breakthroughs in the light epistemological considerations and teaching implementations.

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Section: Photons Interference and First 'Which Path Measurement'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Wave and photon descriptions of light: historical highlights, epistemological aspects and teaching practices

Buonaura

Giuliani

2016

Eur. J. Phys.

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“…The first attempt to investigate the question experimentally [26] consisted of registering on a photographic plate the diffraction pattern of a needle illuminated with extremely attenuated light, so that the energy flux expressed in the number of photons per second would correspond to an average distance between the photons much larger than the size of the apparatus. This pioneering experiment was followed by a long series of diffraction [27] and interference [28][29][30][31][32][33] experiments with light emitted by strongly attenuated ordinary light sources, mostly discharge lamps, so that the average rate of photons entering the interferometric device, estimated as the power divided by the energy of a photon, ranged between 10 2 and 10 7 s −1 . Even at the largest of these rates, the average distance between photons was more than 10 m, much larger than the size of the interferometric device used in the corresponding experiment.…”

Section: In Search Of Feeble Light's Wave-like Properties: a Short Himentioning

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The First Single-Photon Sources

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Grangier

2013

Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences

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“…Young's experiment has been performed using an ultraweak source. (23~ The two slits of Young have also been replaced by a beam splitter (24) and by a pair of independently tuned laser sources. (25) For someone like Schr6dinger, or the present authors, all this evidence is unremarkable.…”

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Stochastic optics: A reaffirmation of the wave nature of light

Marshall

Santos

1988

Found Phys

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Quantum optics does not give a local explanation of the coincidence counts in spatially separated photodetectors. This is the case ./'or a wide variety of phenomena, including the anticorrelated counting rates in the two channels of a beam splitter, the coincident counting rates of the two "photons" in an atomic cascade, and the "antibunching" observed in resonance fluorescence.We propose a local realist theory that explains all of these data in a consistent manner. The theory uses a completely classical description of the electromagnetic field, but with boundary" conditions of the far field that are equivalent to assuming a real fluctuating, zero-point field. It is related to stochastic electrodynamics similarly to the way classical optics is related to classical electromagnetic theory.The quantitative aspects of the theory are developed sufficiently to show that there is agreement with all experiments performed till now. I N T R O D U C T I O NErwin Schr6dinger must be given a substantial part of the credit for today's renaissance of foundational studies in physics. His famous Cat article (1t was, of course, published in the same year as the Einstein-PodolskyRosen (2) article. While we believe that the EPR paper has given, and will continue to give, greater stimulation to experimental work than Schr6dinger's Cat, it is possible to see, in Schr6dinger's criticism of quantum mechanics, a single consistent theme from 1925 until his death in 1962. This theme is the insistence on realism; if a theory denies microscopic realism, it must also deny macroscopic realism. This is the conclusion of the Cat argument and, by a different route, of the EPR argument also. We

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The interference phenomena of light at very low intensities

Cited by 38 publications

References 13 publications

Wave and photon descriptions of light: historical highlights, epistemological aspects and teaching practices

Wave and photon descriptions of light: historical highlights, epistemological aspects and teaching practices

The First Single-Photon Sources

Stochastic optics: A reaffirmation of the wave nature of light

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