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Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Photon mass as an equivalent of the energy of field compression into a waveguide mode

L. A. Rivlin

Moscow State Institute of Radio-Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)

Abstract: The general case of a waveguide with an arbitrary cross section is used to show that a nonzero photon mass is equivalent to the energy of a quantum of the critical frequency of a waveguide mode. This energy is equal to the work done against the light-pressure forces of zero-point fluctuations of vacuum in the course of compression of unbounded free space into a waveguide.

PACS: 14.70.Bh, 42.79.Gn

Received: 31.12.1995

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1995, 25:3, 275–277

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