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The photon — optics is also quantum
optics
A beam is also a stream of photons (E = hf, on the quantum floor); the photoelectric effect, lasers and single-photon experiments live here. Classical rays and quantum photons are one light. Rests on quantum mechanics.
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Narrow Highway — optics
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card_opt_the_photon
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WIT.codex.FCT/the-photon-optics-is-also-quantum/REF.WITNESSED@narrow-highway
adjoining cards
- part of → Optics — how light bends, focuses, and slows — a pillar of optics (The photon)
- connects at → Quantum mechanics — the quantum and its limits — the photon - the quantum of light; wave-particle duality
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