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 $h\nu$ - what does the square of its amplitude represent, then? Are there bounds to the amplitude of an EM wave?


Take two waves of amplitudes $A_1$ and $A_2$ and frequency $f_0$. If $A_2 = 2A_1$, can the wave with amplitude $A_2$ be said to carry/be two $A_1$ photons of frequency $f_0$?




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