Energy conservation and michelson interferometers

Danyon · Oct 25, 2015

What happens to the energy of a laser beam when it completely deconstructively interferes with itself in a michelson interferometer?

blue_leaf77 · Oct 25, 2015

The missing energy goes back to the source. It can be understood from the phase shift attained upon reflection in the beam splitter.

ddesaneis · Oct 25, 2015

Within an interferometer, photon interference causes changes in detect-ability. Collisions between photons do not change energy, except when high-energy photons create matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon_physics

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