PHOTON PHYSICS:FROM WAVE MECHANICS TO QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS

摘要

When rewritten in an appropriate manner, the microscopic Maxwell-Lorentz equations appear as a wave-mechanical theory for photons, and their quantum physical interaction with matter. A natural extension leadsfrom photon wave mechanics to quantum electrodynamics (QED). In its modern formulation photon wave me-chanics has given us valuable new insight in subjects such as spatial photon localization, near-field photondynamics, transverse photon mass, photon eikonal theory, photon tunneling, and rim-zone electrodynamics. Thepresent review is based on my plenary lecture at the SPIE-Europe 2009 Optics and Optoelectronics InternationalSymposium in Prague.