中国物理B ›› 2008, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (2): 578-584.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/17/2/037

• THE PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS • 上一篇    下一篇

Interference nature of light

姚志欣, 钟建伟, 毛邦宁, 潘佰良   

  1. Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • 收稿日期:2007-01-08 修回日期:2007-09-06 出版日期:2008-02-20 发布日期:2008-02-20

Interference nature of light

Yao Zhi-Xin(姚志欣)†, Zhong Jian-Wei(钟建伟), Mao Bang-Ning(毛邦宁), and Pan Bai-Liang(潘佰良)   

  1. Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • Received:2007-01-08 Revised:2007-09-06 Online:2008-02-20 Published:2008-02-20

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摘要： Interference of light has been reinvestigated theoretically by linear superposition of two different state-vector functions, of which each describes the photons from one of two different light sources in both polarization and intensity. By the use of microscopic parameters for a photon, namely probability amplitude and phase, it is again validated that interference of light occurs only between the same photons possessing a set of the selfsame eigenvalues.

Abstract: Interference of light has been reinvestigated theoretically by linear superposition of two different state-vector functions, of which each describes the photons from one of two different light sources in both polarization and intensity. By the use of microscopic parameters for a photon, namely probability amplitude and phase, it is again validated that interference of light occurs only between the same photons possessing a set of the selfsame eigenvalues.

Key words: photon, state-vector function, interference

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