Re: Can Photons be described as Mono-Waves?

Posted by DickT on January 05, 2003 at 11:36:11:

In Reply to: Can Photons be described as Mono-Waves? posted by moorglade on January 05, 2003 at 05:31:03:

moorglade,

A single photon would indeed be the quantum of a single frequency field excitation. You can count photons in a specialized instrument that releases them one at a time, but you can't count "the photons in a beam of light" since the number operator that would be applied to yield the count literally doesn't exist in this case.

Regards,
Dick

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