- A
photon (from
Ancient Gr**** φῶς, φωτός (phôs, phōtós) 'light') is an
elementary particle that is a
quantum of the
electromagnetic field,
including electromagnetic...
- Look up
Photon or
photon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
photon is an
elementary particle of light.
Photon may also
refer to:
Photon (comics), two...
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Photon energy is the
energy carried by a
single photon. The
amount of
energy is
directly proportional to the
photon's electromagnetic frequency and thus...
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wavelengths less than 10 picometers (1×10−11 m),
gamma ray
photons have the
highest photon energy of any form of
electromagnetic radiation. Paul Villard...
- two-
photon absorption (TPA or 2PA), also
called two-
photon excitation or non-linear absorption, is the
simultaneous absorption of two
photons of identical...
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Photon counting is a
technique in
which individual photons are
counted using a single-
photon detector (SPD). A single-
photon detector emits a
pulse of...
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frequency of the
photon, and h is the
Planck constant. Thus,
higher frequency photons have more energy. For example, a 1020 Hz
gamma ray
photon has 1019 times...
- In
computer graphics,
photon mapping is a two-p****
global illumination rendering algorithm developed by
Henrik Wann
Jensen between 1995 and 2001 that approximately...
- Two-
photon physics, also
called gamma–gamma physics, is a
branch of
particle physics that
describes the
interactions between two
photons. Normally, beams...
- high
frequency photons scattering following an
interaction with a
charged particle,
usually an electron. Specifically, when the
photon hits electrons...
