Recent content by benway

Thanks folks for joining the discussion, Cthugha: I interpret what you are saying as if there is a weak modulation happening already early on during the "emission cycle" that won't change the coherence time much, whereas a strong one would (+ broaden the line). I can accept that...

Quite often one can see descriptions saying that the coherence time of single photons corresponds to the length of the single photon wavepacket (for example Jelezko et al, PRA 67 041802(R) (2003) http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v67/i4/e041802). I find it hard to come to terms with this picture...