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Old 16-December-2007, 03:21 PM
vergentbill vergentbill is offline
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The uncertainty is in the time domain. for photons time = distance. 16mm corrisponds to about a nanosecond of uncertainty in when the photon passed thru the focus. Also there is uncertainty as to the direction it is going. If you were to chop the beam to pulses shorter than this, you would spread the frequencies. Read up on "ultra short pulse laser phenomina"
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