Change of energy of photons passing through rotating anisotropic elements
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in European Journal of Physics
- Vol. 15 (2) , 71-78
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/15/2/006
Abstract
We discuss simple experiments where the concept of angular momentum of a photon can be put to use in order to explain the photon energy changes that are produced by the passage of light beams through rotating anisotropic elements.Keywords
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