中国物理B ›› 2021, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 40301-.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/abcf34

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  • 收稿日期:2020-07-05 修回日期:2020-11-10 接受日期:2020-12-01 出版日期:2021-03-16 发布日期:2021-04-02

Discrete wavelet structure and discrete energy of classical plane light waves

Xing-Chu Zhang(张兴初)1 and Wei-Long She(佘卫龙)2,3,†   

  1. 1 Department of Physics and Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou 510303, China;
    2 School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; 3 Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
  • Received:2020-07-05 Revised:2020-11-10 Accepted:2020-12-01 Online:2021-03-16 Published:2021-04-02
  • Contact: Corresponding author. E-mail: shewl@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Abstract: We find by the wavelet transform that the classical plane light wave of linear polarization can be decomposed into a series of discrete Morlet wavelets. In the theoretical frame, the energy of the classical light wave becomes discrete; interestingly, the discretization is consistent with the energy division of P portions in Planck radiation theory, where P is an integer. It is shown that the changeable energy of a basic plane light wave packet or wave train is $H_0k =np_0k \omega (n=1, 2, 3, \ldots; k=\vert  k\vert$), with discrete wavelet structure parameter n, wave vector k and idler frequency ω , and a constant p0k. The wave-particle duality from the Mach-Zehnder interference of single photons is simulated by using random basic plane light wave packets.

Key words: classic plane light wave, discrete wavelet structure, discrete energy

中图分类号:  (Classical electromagnetism, Maxwell equations)

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