• A photon (from Ancient Greek φῶς, φωτός (phôs, phōtós) 'light') is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic...
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  • Photon energy is the energy carried by a single photon. The amount of energy is directly proportional to the photon's electromagnetic frequency and thus...
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  • Look up Photon or photon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A photon is an elementary particle of light. Photon may also refer to: Photon (comics), two...
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    frequency of the photon, and h is the Planck constant. Thus, higher frequency photons have more energy. For example, a 1020 Hz gamma ray photon has 1019 times...
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  • The Photons was a punk/new wave band active between 1977 and 1978. They are most notable for their vocalist Steve Strange, who went on to form Visage...
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    Photon counting is a technique in which individual photons are counted using a single-photon detector (SPD). A single-photon detector emits a pulse of...
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    Gamma ray (redirect from Gamma photon)
    wavelengths less than 10 picometers (1×10−11 m), gamma ray photons have the highest photon energy of any form of electromagnetic radiation. Paul Villard...
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    two-photon absorption (TPA or 2PA), also called two-photon excitation or non-linear absorption, is the simultaneous absorption of two photons of identical...
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    A photon sphere or photon circle arises in a neighbourhood of the event horizon of a black hole where gravity is so strong that emitted photons will not...
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  • In particle physics, soft photons are photons having photon energies much smaller than the energies of the particles participating in a particular scattering...
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