TY - JOUR
T1 - Diffraction of a nondispersive wave packet in the two slit interference experiment
AU - Shaarawi, Amr M.
AU - Besieris, Ioannis M.
AU - Ziolkowski, Richard W.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge that this work was performed in part at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the auspices of the US Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-48.
PY - 1994/5/23
Y1 - 1994/5/23
N2 - In Young's two slit interference experiment, a single light particle or "photon" imparts its energy onto a dot on one of the light fringes of the diffracted field. In this work, it will be shown that a pulse solution of the scalar wave equation, or Maxwell's equations, going through a two slit screen reproduces the aforementioned single event interference effect. This solution, called the focus wave mode, is one of a class of solutions capable of accomodating both the wave and corpuscular aspects of light.
AB - In Young's two slit interference experiment, a single light particle or "photon" imparts its energy onto a dot on one of the light fringes of the diffracted field. In this work, it will be shown that a pulse solution of the scalar wave equation, or Maxwell's equations, going through a two slit screen reproduces the aforementioned single event interference effect. This solution, called the focus wave mode, is one of a class of solutions capable of accomodating both the wave and corpuscular aspects of light.
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U2 - 10.1016/0375-9601(94)90442-1
DO - 10.1016/0375-9601(94)90442-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0042041628
SN - 0375-9601
VL - 188
SP - 218
EP - 224
JO - Physics Letters A
JF - Physics Letters A
IS - 3
ER -