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Am 14.02.26 um 16:54 schrieb john larkin:

>>>     Wave-like interference can be observed in the famous double-slit
>>>     experiment. Now, what happens when we reduce the intensity of the
>>>     incoming light to one single photon? We get one single spot on the
>>>     detector screen! So, does this mean "no wave behavior"? Well, when
>>>     we repeat this with many single photons, one after the other, in
>>>     the end, we get the same interference pattern on that screen created
>>>     by all those dots!
>>
>> This is misleading. There is no single-photon gun.
> 
> I recall someone making a laser sort of thing that dispenses a single
> photon periodically.

But that has nothing to do with lasers anymore.
No coherence to anything and so on.

There is no difference to a starving LED then.
I succeeded in converting a costly DFB laser to a LED :-(
It takes just a few usecs until the resonator grid is gone.

Gerhard

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energy and mass (was: usenet weirdness) ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-10 21:58 +0000
  Re: energy and mass (was: usenet weirdness) john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-10 15:07 -0800
    Re: energy and mass ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-10 23:47 +0000
      Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-12 02:41 +0100
      Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-12 02:43 +0100
  Re: energy and mass (was: usenet weirdness) john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-10 15:49 -0800
    Re: energy and mass (was: usenet weirdness) Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2026-02-11 01:19 +0000
      Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-11 16:32 +0100
    Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-11 15:23 +0100
      Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-11 17:21 +0100
      Re: energy and mass Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-02-17 10:34 -0800
        post-maturity brain damages in Ross Finalyson. (Re: energy and mass Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-02-24 13:43 +0100
          Give this man an IQ booster, his brain is defaulting (Was: post-maturity brain damages in Ross Finalyson.) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-02-24 21:18 +0100
      Re: energy and mass Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-02-18 12:30 -0800
    Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-12 14:55 +0100
      Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-12 14:58 +0100
    Re: energy and mass Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-14 03:17 +1100
      Re: energy and mass ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-13 16:20 +0000
        Re: energy and mass Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-14 07:20 +1100
          Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-14 03:31 +0100
        Re: energy and mass Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-02-13 21:50 +0100
          Re: energy and mass john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-13 15:03 -0800
            Re: energy and mass ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-13 23:35 +0000
              Re: energy and mass Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-02-14 10:47 +0100
                Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-14 15:21 +0100
                Re: energy and mass Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-15 02:46 +1100
                Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-15 01:24 +0100
                Re: energy and mass Jeremiah Jones <jj@j.j> - 2026-02-17 20:03 -0800
                Re: energy and mass john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-14 07:58 -0800
                Re: energy and mass john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-14 07:54 -0800
                Re: energy and mass Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-02-14 18:01 +0100
                Re: energy and mass Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2026-02-14 20:52 +0100
                Re: energy and mass ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-15 17:20 +0000
              Re: energy and mass x <x@x.net> - 2026-02-14 15:38 -0800
                Re: energy and mass john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-27 19:48 -0800
          Re: energy and mass Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-02-14 03:36 +0100
  Re: energy and mass Python <python@cccp.invalid> - 2026-02-20 14:27 +0000

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