Recent content by gillwill

OK, thanks for the info. To expand on this: what about just two individual photons destructively interfering with each other in a confinement or vacuum? And making things even more confusing to me, the event of a single photon interfering with itself.

For example, when two light waves completely cancel each other out, there is the black on an interference pattern, indicating absence of light. What happens to the photons? It seems they cease to exist. Also, How does this relate (or not) to the "Conservation of Energy" law? Any...

Thanks for the info, and I'm sure there is seldom deliberate misrepresentation, but not just here, elsewhere on the web (perhaps more so), particularly in references to RGB, it's so often presented as if those are the only bands of visible light. For example in documentation regarding image...

So something like optical vortices wouldn't apply?

Maybe it's just an issue of semantics but the "either" part of that statement is confusing and seems to suggest that human's eyes are sensitive to just those three colors of light. I don't know for certain myself, therefore this post: However, I wonder sometimes if too many people...

In making comparisons on efficiency in acquired ambient light for imaging devices, whether they be CCD and CMOS cameras or reflective displays, it seems the factoring is always based on Red, Green and Blue as if those are the only bands of visible light. For example, in acquiring\reflecting the...

Sorry I am not articulating better. Perhaps I was even using the wrong terminology, but what has contributed to my confusion are articles, such as the abstract below... http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v426/n6968/abs/nature02193.html" ...that seems to suggest that light from visible to...

So, in regards to light transmitted via a subwavelength diameter optical fiber, it is not the actual light wave propagating through the fiber but some residual wave emission of another form induced by the light wave, similar as to with plasmons?

I'm sure this is something so simple, but I've failed to find answer elsewhere, even doing several google searches "circle on circuit board", "diagram of circuit", etc... What is the circle at the end of a wire\line on a circuit board? (the actual circuit board, not a diagram\drawing of one)...

I've read in various places on the web and on this board discussions regarding subwavelengths, but I still can't fully comprehend how it's possible for an EM wave to transmit through an aperture and\or encased waveguide that is smaller than the given EM wave's wavelength. I've read about...

Defining Gravity - Give it a Rest! As usual the scientific explanations are all totally off the wall; nothing but whimsical flights of imagination by delusional pseudo-intellectual kooks who base their pretentious propositions on foundations of their own fatuous utopian conceptions. The most...