Diffraction, relativity, and quantum mechanics

Henri H. Arsenault

doi:10.1117/12.354934

19 July 1999 Diffraction, relativity, and quantum mechanics

Henri H. Arsenault

Proceedings Volume 3749, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354934
Event: ICO XVIII 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1999, San Francisco, CA, United States

Abstract

At the recent conference on Optics in Education in Deift, I presented a paper' where I claimed that a new formulation of scalar diffraction based on an angular representation was simpler, more accurate and easier to teach than the classical manner based on various approximations of the spatial distribution. To my surprise, the presentation generated a storm of protest by some participants in the congress, who claimed that my results were wrong and my derivation invalid. Although my results were not wrong, it is true that the demonstrations were more intuitive than rigorous. Since that time, I have reexamined my results and found that I can put them in a rigorous form by means of some relatively elementary quantum and relativistic properties of light

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Henri H. Arsenault "Diffraction, relativity, and quantum mechanics", Proc. SPIE 3749, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, (19 July 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354934

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