Pouring Oil on Troubled Light-Momentum
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 4 Story 4 - 2/3/2009

Is the light gaining momentum

The recoil of the fiber (from left to right) would suggest that the light is gaining momentum while exiting the fiber. Picture courtesy of Weilong She.
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Is the light gaining momentum? The recoil of the fiber (from left to right) would suggest that the light is gaining momentum while exiting the fiber.