Double Sew Interference: Light Source Effect?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the double-slit interference experiment and the effects of using separate light sources instead of a single coherent source. Participants explore the implications of coherence and phase differences in relation to interference patterns.

Discussion Character

  • Debate/contested
  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • One participant questions whether interference would still occur if each slit in a double-slit experiment used a separate light source.
  • Another participant suggests that interference typically requires a constant phase difference between light sources, which is challenging to achieve with separate sources.
  • A different viewpoint is presented, arguing that the coherence requirement may not apply in the same way as it does for light, drawing an analogy to water waves which can interfere without the same constraints.
  • Participants express uncertainty about the clarity of the original question, indicating potential language barriers affecting comprehension.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the necessity of coherence for interference in light sources, with differing opinions on whether separate sources can produce interference patterns.

Contextual Notes

There are unresolved assumptions regarding the definitions of coherence and phase difference as they apply to light versus other wave phenomena, such as water waves.

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In double sew interfere with experiment, make each one sew use a light source, would still have the interference?
 
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This problem look easy, so no one's answer.haha...
The reason that I ask this problem, is because I think to have no interference the existence.
I am to say theoretically have no interference existence.Look and usual theories antinomy.
Don't know to have the person to do this to experiment?
 
thinker said:
This problem look easy, so no one's answer.haha...

No, I think it's because people don't understand your question. :frown:

Obviously English is not your first language, so it would not be good for people to make jokes about or put you down about it. But you still need to accept that people will have trouble understanding you, if your English isn't good enough.

I think you are asking the following: In a double-slit interference experiment [where the light through both slits actually comes from a single source], what happens if you use two separate sources of light?

In that situation, you will usually not have interference, because the two sources need to have a constant phase difference between them, that is, they have to be coherent with each other. This is hard to do with real light sources, even with lasers.
 
jtbell said:
No, I think it's because people don't understand your question. :frown:

Obviously English is not your first language, so it would not be good for people to make jokes about or put you down about it. But you still need to accept that people will have trouble understanding you, if your English isn't good enough.

I think you are asking the following: In a double-slit interference experiment [where the light through both slits actually comes from a single source], what happens if you use two separate sources of light?

In that situation, you will usually not have interference, because the two sources need to have a constant phase difference between them, that is, they have to be coherent with each other. This is hard to do with real light sources, even with lasers.

yes,My English is very what a mess, I am very sorry.haha..
Thank you to explain English for me.You explain very right.
I learn the physics simultaneously to learn English simultaneously here.

In fact, I think is not they whether the problem for “coherent” , also is not the problem for “need to have a constant phase difference between them” .Consider the circumstance of the wave of water, have no this problem(use two separate sources).
I am an objection to have to “coherent” with the light.
 

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