Friday, 4 January 2019

optics - Focused beam of light


I'm trying to understand what happens to photons when a beam of light is focused down to its waist. In the image attached, do photons take the path 1 or 2. That is, do the photons cross or just get 'deflected'.


Beam of light focused




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