The nature of light : what is a photon? / edited by Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri, A.F. Kracklauer, Katherine Creath. - 1 online resource (xxi, 429 pages) - Optical science and engineering ; 135 . - Optical science and engineering (Boca Raton, Fla.) ; 135. .

part Section 1 Critical Reviews of Mainstream Photon Model -- chapter 1 Light Reconsidered / chapter 2 What Is a Photon? / chapter 3 What Is a Photon? / chapter 4 The Concept of the Photon�Revisited / chapter 5 A Photon Viewed from Wigner Phase Space / part Section 2 Epistemological Origin of Logical Contradiction -- chapter 6 Inevitable Incompleteness of All Theories: An Epistemology to Continuously Refine Human Logics Towards Cosmic Logics / chapter 7 Single Photons Have not Been Detected: The Alternative Photon Clump Model / part Section 3 Exploring Photons beyond Mainstream Views -- chapter 8 What Is a Photon? / chapter 9 Oh Photon, Photon; Whither Art Thou Gone? / chapter 10 The Photon Wave Function / chapter 11 Photons Are Fluctuations of a Random (Zeropoint) Radiation Filling the Whole Space / chapter 12 Violation of the Principle of Complementarity and Its Implications / chapter 13 The Bohr Model of the Photon / chapter 14 The Maxwell Wave Function of the Photon / chapter 15 Modeling Light Entangled in Polarization and Frequency: Case Study in Quantum Cryptography / chapter 16 Photon�The Minimum Dose of Electromagnetic Radiation / chapter 17 Propagating Topological Singularities: Photons / chapter 18 The Photon: A Virtual Reality / chapter 19 The Photon and Its Measurability. Edward Henry Dowdye, Jr -- chapter 20 Phase Coherence in Multiple Scattering: Weak and Intense Monochromatic Light Wave Propagating in Cold Strontium Cloud / chapter 21 The Nature of Light: Description of Photon Diffraction Based Upon Virtual Particle Exchange / chapter 22 What Physics Is Encoded in Maxwell's Equations? / chapter 23 From Quantum to Classical: Watching a Single Photon Become a Wave / chapter 24 If Superposed Light Beams Do not Re-Distribute Their Energy in the Absence of Detectors (Material Dipoles), Can a Single Indivisible Photon Interfere? / chapter 25 What Processes Are behind Energy Re-Direction and Re-Distribution in Interference and Diffraction? / chapter 26 Do We Count Indivisible Photons or Discrete Quantum Events Experienced by Detectors? / chapter 27 Direct Measurement of Light Waves / Arthur Zajonc -- Rodney Loudon -- David Finkelstein -- Ashok Muthukrishnan -- Holger Mack -- Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri -- Emilio Panarella -- C. Rangacharyulu -- A. F. Kracklauer -- A. Muthukrishnan -- Emilio Santos -- Shahriar S. Afshar -- Geoffrey Hunter -- M. G. Raymer -- John M. Myers -- Tuomo Suntola -- R. M. Kiehn -- David L. Andrews -- David Wilkowski -- Michael J. Mobley -- B. P. Kosyakov -- Marco Bellini -- Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri -- Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri -- Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri -- E. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, R. Kienberger, A. Baltuska, V. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi, Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, and F. Krausz.

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Photons.
Light.

QC793.5.P427 / N38 2008

539.7217 / N285