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A research field within general optical physics concerned with light and its material interaction: where light is modelled by full quantum mechanical description.

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What is the spatial extent of single photon?

A photon's momentum is calculated by $$p = \frac{h \nu}{c} $$ which is different to how you calculate momentum for particles with mass. This means that a photon can have a finite spatial extent, it j …
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