In Reply to: RE: The Double-Slit experiment posted by geoffkait on October 8, 2015 at 14:19:18:
Certainly coherence is a wave phenomena. Light certainly acts as a wave and was long visualized as a purely wave phenomena.
The interaction of light with photosensitive metals led to a puzzle, the photoelectric effect (see link). The eventual explanation was that light, previously considered a wave, exhibited a quantized particulate nature, each particle being labelled a photon.
This was the very beginning of quantum theory. Which has been extensively tested and verified in the century since. There is nothing peculiar to lasers or quantum dots that changes this picture of the light they generate. In fact, you can read references to photon generation in many quantum dot papers.
Well, anyway, you can have the last word on this, I fear that if we do not have an agreement at this point, we never will. See you on a more populated forum like film.
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