{"id":769,"date":"2008-09-09T03:58:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T08:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=769"},"modified":"2008-09-09T03:58:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T08:58:05","slug":"shape-and-the-single-photon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/769","title":{"rendered":"Shape and the Single Photon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v22\/st8\">Shaping Single Photons<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you detect a photon, you can say where, when, and with what frequency it arrived, but before the measurement, these parameters are undefined. The photon&#8217;s existence is embodied in a wave function, which gives the probability of measuring the photon at any time, place, and frequency. The wave function for a single photon is usually a &#8220;wave packet&#8221;&#8211;nearly zero everywhere except in a narrow range of space and time. But as long as you don&#8217;t detect the photon directly, you can manipulate its wave function into any complicated shape, in theory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaping Single Photons When you detect a photon, you can say where, when, and with what frequency it arrived, but before the measurement, these parameters are undefined. The photon&#8217;s existence is embodied in a wave function, which gives the probability &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/769\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[96,198,361,444],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-physics","tag-atomic-physics","tag-electromagnetically-induced-transparency","tag-optics","tag-slow-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}