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Photon Size Is Really About Coherence Length

Huygens Optics · Explainer · 21 min · 2021 · YouTube title: How big is a visible photon?
Why it's here

HN recommends it as an approachable, intuitive explanation of why visible photons can be surprisingly large, from a channel known for practical optics.

What it covers

Huygens Optics shows through a laser interference experiment that the question of a photon's size is really about coherence length. It argues that photons exist as energy exchanges between radiation and matter, not as little particles in free space.