Towards an event-based corpuscular model for optical phenomena

H. De Raedt; F. Jin; K. Michielsen

doi:10.1117/12.887438

28 September 2011 Towards an event-based corpuscular model for optical phenomena

H. De Raedt, F. Jin, K. Michielsen

Proceedings Volume 8121, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? IV; 812103 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.887438
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We discuss an event-based corpuscular model of optical phenomena that does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation of the whole system and reproduces the results of Maxwell's theory through a series of cause-and-effect processes, starting with the emission and ending with the detection of a particle. Event-based models of a single-photon detector and of light propagation through an interface of two dielectrics are used as modular building blocks to give a unified, corpuscular description of many optical phenomena. The approach is illustrated by applications to Wheeler's delayed choice, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm and Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiments.

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H. De Raedt, F. Jin, and K. Michielsen "Towards an event-based corpuscular model for optical phenomena", Proc. SPIE 8121, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? IV, 812103 (28 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.887438

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