From Huygens' waves to Einstein's photons: Weird light
Abstract
From Huygens to Kastler, the members of the Académie des sciences have played an important role in the development and/or the thorough understanding of the models of light. This has paved the way to modern Quantum Optics.
- Publication:
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Comptes Rendus Physique
- Pub Date:
- November 2017
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2017CRPhy..18..498A
- Keywords:
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- Light;
- Wave;
- Photon;
- Comptes rendus;
- French Academy of Sciences