Causal Physics Photons by Non-Interactions of Waves

Contradictions in Optical Phenomena

Introduction: Critical Role of Electromagnetic Waves in Advancing Fundamental Science and Various Technologies

Contradictions and Paradoxes

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Introduction

Evidence of NIW Property from Common-Sense Observations

Evidence of NIW Property from Multiple- and Two-Beam Interferometer Experiments

Evidence of the NIW Property Built into the Wave Equations

Physical Processes behind Energy Redistribution and Redirection

Conflict of the NIW property with the Time-Frequency Fourier Theorem (TF-FT)

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Introduction

Evidence of the NIW Property Built into the Wave Equation

Critical Role Played by a Beam Combiner; Collinear versus Noncollinear Beam Superposition

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Introduction: the Huygens–Fresnel Principle

Huygens–Fresnel (HF) Diffraction Integral

Appreciating the NIW Property through Some Basic Diffraction Patterns

Evolution of HF Integral to an SS-FT Integral or Space–Space Fourier Transforms

A Critique Against Incorporating Time-Frequency Fourier Theorem within HF Integral

Visualizing Wave Propagation from Wave Equations

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Introduction

Grating Response Functions

Fabry–Perot Response Function

Michelson’s Fourier Transform Spectrometry (FTS) and Light-Beating Spectrometry (LBS)

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Introduction

Traditional Visibility and Autocorrelation Due to a Light Pulse or Amplitude Correlation

Spectral Correlation

Spatial or Space–Space Correlation

Complex Correlation

Conceptual Contradictions Existing in Current Coherence Theory

Redefining Coherence as Joint-Correlation Effect Experienced by Detectors

References

Introduction

Recognizing Conceptual Contradictions and Ambiguities in the Observed Data of Phase-Locked Lasers

Modeling Mode Locking as an Intensity-Dependent Time-Gating Process

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Introduction

Classifying Spectral Dispersion Based on Physical Processes in the Instruments

Physical Origin of Material Dispersion (Frequency Dependent Velocity)

Does Group Velocity Correctly Depict the Broadening of Pulse Propagating through a Dispersive Medium?

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Introduction

Polarization Interferometry: Do EM Wave Vectors Sum Themselves or Do the Detecting Dipoles?

Complexity of Interferometry with Polarized Light; Even a Fixed Polarizer Can Modulate Light

Can Orthogonal Beams Combine to Make a Polarized E-Vector if the NIW Property Is Valid?

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Introduction

Historical Origin of Wave–Particle Duality

Revisiting Einstein and Dirac Postulates in Light of Planck’s Wave Packet and the NIW Property

Proposed Model for Semiclassical Photons

Recognizing Complexities Imposed by Mirrors and Beam Splitters in an Interferometer

Information Carried by Photon Wave Packets

Do We Need to Accept "Wave–Particle Duality" as Our Final Knowledge?

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Introduction

Most Successful Theories Implicate Space as Possessing Some Physical Properties

Propagation of EM Waves as Undulations of the Complex Tension Field (CTF)

Cosmological Red Shift: Doppler Shift versus a Dissipative CTF

Massless Particles as Localized Resonant Harmonic Oscillations of the CTF

Four Forces as Gradients Imposed on CTF around Localized Oscillations (Particles)

Wave–Particle Duality for Particles and Locality of Superposition Effects between Particle Beams

CTF-Drag and Special Relativity

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Introduction: Why a Chapter on Methodology of Thinking in a Basic Book on Science?

Acknowledging the Outstanding Achievements of Modern Physics

Taking Guidance from Newton

Evolution of Our Exploring Approaches to Understand Nature

Need for Well-Articulated Epistemology for Students

Seamlessly Connecting IPM-E with MDM-E by Dissecting the Measurement and Theorizing Processes

Highlights of the Book and Its Accomplishments

Summarizing: Congruency between Seeking "Ontological Reality" and "Sustained Evolution"

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Biography

Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri is a research professor of physics, at the University of Connecticut. His key interest is in exploring the fundamental nature of light and particles. Chandra came to the USA as a Fulbright Scholar and received his PhD from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. He has worked for US industries for 14 years (TRW, Perkin-Elmer, United Technologies) and for academia for over two decades (India, Mexico, USA). He is a life member of APS, OSA, and IEEE, and Fellow of OSA and SPIE. He was a member of the board of directors of both OSA and SPIE.