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Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-07  +Created 2024-10-28

You can't get more direct than this in terms of proving that photons exist!

The particular case of the double-slit experiment will be discussed at: single particle double slit experiment.

Detectors are generally called photomultipliers:

Bibliography:

iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-3063-3.pdf Quantum Mechanics in the Single Photon Laboratory by Waseem, Ilahi and Anwar (2020)

How to use an SiPM - Experiment Video by SensLTech (2018)

Single-photon detectors - Krister Shalm by Institute for Quantum Computing (2013)

youtu.be/Vt84rSJa7VI?t=721 Poincaré sphere

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