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Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Weighing a photon

L. A. Rivlin

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

Abstract: It is shown that when an electromagnetic wave travels in a waveguide against the force of gravity, it experiences distributed reflection which converts the waveguide into a gravitational resonator cavity. The placing of such a cavity on the scale of a balance makes it possible, in a thought experiment, to weigh directly a photon which has an inertial and gravitational mass in the guided mode.

PACS: 14.70.Bh, 42.79.Gn

Received: 28.10.1994

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1995, 25:6, 599–601

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