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JAL
There are many properties of EM Waves that can be seen as some kind of ordered distribution of energy in space and time. I can think of a few:
- Polarization: Direction of the electric field in space.
- Coherence: Some kind of phase relationship
My questions are:
- How does a single photon travel? Is a single photon always polarized?, ie, is the electric field of a photon always in a single direction, does it rotate with time and travel in like a helix or does the orientation of the electric field just a probability?
- Is the electric field in phase with the magnetic field? I found contradicting info on this. See http://www.play-hookey.com/optics/transverse_electromagnetic_wave.html
Thanks you.
JAL
- Polarization: Direction of the electric field in space.
- Coherence: Some kind of phase relationship
My questions are:
- How does a single photon travel? Is a single photon always polarized?, ie, is the electric field of a photon always in a single direction, does it rotate with time and travel in like a helix or does the orientation of the electric field just a probability?
- Is the electric field in phase with the magnetic field? I found contradicting info on this. See http://www.play-hookey.com/optics/transverse_electromagnetic_wave.html
Thanks you.
JAL
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