I have a doubt about how double slit experiment is made. Let\'s think about the

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I have a doubt about how double slit experiment is made.

Let's think about the perforated wall, what are the requirement for it?

Can a photographic plate could be used as a wall ?

I see a problem here, as a photographic plate serve also as a detector, then the single photon experiment could end up with a single point in the wall that contains the slits and not in the plate located behind the slit's wall.

Of course the "one photon count", is knowing the emition before the slits (if this count were made after, it will be a detector making a measurement and would simply reflect the particle effect)

The wall with the slits could absorb the photon(removing electrons from the material) before something happen on the other side, if that happened, there would be no experiment, the photon won't pass through the slits, just because its energy was already used (supposing all energy is used and the photon doesn't split).

There must be some kind of specification about the material of the wall, need to be special, in the sense of needing a higher energy (than the test photon) to pickup electrons, then the light won't stop there, for that, I think the wall can't be made of a photosensible material, but I don't know, and here I am asking..

thanks for any answer

Explanation / Answer

1. Of course wall sometimes absorbs the photon (light do not evade it in any way). To have interference, you need to have no information (in terms of excitation, creation of photographic grain of whatever) that could be used to say which path the photon 'has chosen'.

2. It is fine to use foil. See e.g. http://ultrafast.fuw.edu.pl/publications/ajp_2008.pdf (so called Fresnel Zone Plates on film or polygraphic foil). Want to test it by yourself? Make an analog photography of two dark lines, and then use film as a diffractive agent. Or - in any DTP studio post a PostScript file e.g. from http://migdal.wikidot.com/prazki-moire -> (don't be afraid it is in Polish; just download a few first ps/pdf files).

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