[General] electrophotonics as technological applications of charged photons

[Richard Gauthier]

  I have started thinking about possible technological applications of charged photon models of the electron. The general idea is that if an electron is a charged photon (in whatever model—EM or photon or both or otherwise), creating technological applications of this concept can be called electrophotonics. Already there are important applications of electrons which make use of their wave properties — think electron microscope. There is also the engineering application making use of the wave property of protons in proton microscopy. And light holography has already been extended to electron holography.  Re-conceiving electrons as charged photons may generate new thinking about possible technological applications of the light-like properties of electrons such as interference, diffraction, superposition, double-slit phenomena, coherent electron group phenomena (similar to lasers), electron entanglement etc. If electrons are charged photons with the de Broglie wavelength which depends on the electron’s speed, then many technological applications of photons (photonics) could also be done by electrons, taking into account however that charged photons (electrons) are fermions instead of bosons. What could be done with a coherent plane wave composed of electrons instead of photons? And how can such a coherent plane wave of electrons be generated? Within a conductor? There are already many studies of electron phase coherence. Perhaps this work could be expanded and generalized using charged photon models of the electron.
   Also, a new branch of photonics would be of possible interest at SPIE, if backed up with novel applications of the charged photon concept.

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