mirrors and lasers

[Jim Choate]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 mmotyka at 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 at ssz.com
       www.ssz.com            .',  ||||    `/( e\      512-451-7087
                           -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'-
    --------------------------------------------------------------------