On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 mmotyka@lsil.com wrote:
Are you implying that the wavelength for incident photons changes upon interaction with the mirror?
The energy loss at the mirror is lost photons not altered wavelengths. The lost photons have varying fates.
The ones absorbed by the mirror are turned into low-frequency (ie heat) photons. There will always be a 'bell curve' effect. Most won't be effected, some small few will. As the beam intensity goes up so does the total number of 'interactions' betwix the mirror atoms and the beam photons going in and exciting them little babies. At some point they fall in a variety of cascades (again statistically determinable at least) which again convert that intially mono-tonic photon into a variety of poly-tonic ones. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light. B.A. Behrend The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------