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Frontiers in Optics

Hybrid photon model bridges classical and quantum optics

Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri

Published Jan 1, 2017• 4 citations
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Abstract

Photons are transient QM energy packets at emission that evolve as Huygens wave-packets. We use the quantum cup postulate, along with known interferometric and spectrometric data to resolve the currently perceived contradictions.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2017.jw3a.32

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