TY - GEN
T1 - Can the hypothesis 'photon interferes only with itself be reconciled with superposition of light from multiple beams or sources?
AU - Roychoudhuri, Chandrasekhar
AU - Prasad, Narasimha S.
AU - Peng, Qing
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Any superposition effect as measured (SEM) by us is the summation of simultaneous stimulations experienced by a detector due to the presence of multiple copies of a detectee each carrying different values of the same parameter. We discus the cases with light beams carrying same frequency for both diffraction and multiple beam Fabry-Perot interferometer and also a case where the two superposed light beams carry different frequencies. Our key argument is that if light really consists of indivisible elementary particle, photon, then it cannot by itself create superposition effect since the state vector of an elementary particle cannot carry more than one values of any parameter at the same time. Fortunately, semiclassical model explains all light induced interactions using quantized atoms and classical EM wave packet. Classical physics, with its deeper commitment to Reality Ontology, was better prepared to nurture the emergence of Quantum Mechanics and still can provide guidance to explore nature deeper if we pay careful attention to successful classical formulations like Huygens-Fresnel diffraction integral.
AB - Any superposition effect as measured (SEM) by us is the summation of simultaneous stimulations experienced by a detector due to the presence of multiple copies of a detectee each carrying different values of the same parameter. We discus the cases with light beams carrying same frequency for both diffraction and multiple beam Fabry-Perot interferometer and also a case where the two superposed light beams carry different frequencies. Our key argument is that if light really consists of indivisible elementary particle, photon, then it cannot by itself create superposition effect since the state vector of an elementary particle cannot carry more than one values of any parameter at the same time. Fortunately, semiclassical model explains all light induced interactions using quantized atoms and classical EM wave packet. Classical physics, with its deeper commitment to Reality Ontology, was better prepared to nurture the emergence of Quantum Mechanics and still can provide guidance to explore nature deeper if we pay careful attention to successful classical formulations like Huygens-Fresnel diffraction integral.
KW - Bell's inequality
KW - Huygens-Fresnel principle
KW - Reality ontology
KW - Single photon interference
KW - Superposition effects
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U2 - 10.1117/12.734363
DO - 10.1117/12.734363
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:42149189984
SN - 9780819468123
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - The Nature of Light
ER -