Timeline for Interference in split and recombined beam
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| Jun 26, 2023 at 17:01 | answer | added | Duke William | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 17, 2023 at 19:55 | comment | added | Gilad | anna - do you mean that the photon never leavs the source or that it is reflected back? Bill - B is a one way glass so it should not reflect any of A1 but reflect all of A2 | |
| Jun 17, 2023 at 1:17 | comment | added | FlatterMann | The trivial mistake here is to assume that beams are flat and that the optical setup absorbs all the beam power that goes into it. They aren't and it doesn't. Your detector will not see a flat field but fringes, which move as you tune the delay, but if the detector is large enough the total power in all of those fringes combined is always the same as the input power (which is NOT constant because of reflected waves). Again, this is just another "thought experiment" that is based on a poor mental model of optics and quantum mechanics. | |
| Jun 16, 2023 at 22:18 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | What happens to the photons coming from A2 when they hit B? Do they all reflect toward the detector, or do 50% of them transmit through and up? | |
| Jun 16, 2023 at 20:46 | answer | added | PhysicsDave | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 16, 2023 at 10:26 | comment | added | anna v | photons are quantum mechanical entities , there is no "shouldnt" , source and photon are in one quantum solution. | |
| Jun 16, 2023 at 9:12 | comment | added | Gilad | in the lecture you're referring to the light is returning to the source, but in my setup that shouldn't be | |
| Jun 16, 2023 at 8:54 | comment | added | anna v | this may interest you youtube.com/watch?v=RRi4dv9KgCg | |
| Jun 16, 2023 at 8:41 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2023 at 8:32 | history | asked | Gilad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |