Danijel Gorupec Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Sorry, if I am a bit off topic, but just a side question out of curiosity - can bouncing light in a fixed box have any wavelength, or only some discrete values? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Danijel Gorupec said: Sorry, if I am a bit off topic, but just a side question out of curiosity - can bouncing light in a fixed box have any wavelength, or only some discrete values? In 1D, it should be easy to see that there are discrete wavelengths, since you will get destructive interference if the path length is not a multiple of the half-wavelength. So other wavelengths will not persist. If you consider 3D, there are more paths available and you have more options that avoid destructive interference, but you will still have wavelengths that are excluded from possibility. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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