When light goes through a slit, diffraction causes it to bend and spread across the screen, making a predictable banded pattern. When light goes through two slits, new dark regions appear. The dark ...

Niels Bohr once suggested a very simple gedanken experiment to prove that, in order to preserve the consistency of elementary quantum mechanics, the radiation field must be quantized as photons.* In ...

Tangled photons sharing a wave function divide diffraction limit Quantum entanglement, a phenomenon having no classical analog, became potentially important for semiconductor fabrication when an ...

Ask students to look at the light bulb through a small slit formed by holding two fingers together close to their eye. You should see a diffraction pattern that changes as you increase or decrease ...

The Italian team also conducted the experiment with one slit plugged, which – as expected – did not lead to the creation of a double-slit diffraction pattern. The team also performed another ...

The analysis of the scattering by a slit formed by two half-planes is a crucial subject in electromagnetic theory and relevant to many engineering applications. A number of scientists have analyzed ...

The far field of a two-dimensional beam resulting from an electric line source at a complex position is described, its half-power beamwidth determined, and its validity as an antenna beam indicated.