Tuesday, November 13, 2018

electromagnetic radiation - Producing photons with same frequency, different amplitude wave



I don't understand how two photons of the same frequency can have different amplitudes, neither how to produce them.


I know that classically the square of the amplitude is proportional to the energy, but photons aren't classical particles.


My understanding is that a photon's energy is hν - what does the square of its amplitude represent, then? Are there bounds to the amplitude of an EM wave?


Take two waves of amplitudes A1 and A2 and frequency f0. If A2=2A1, can the wave with amplitude A2 be said to carry/be two A1 photons of frequency f0?




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