The Ghost In The Machine wrote in
news
RF tank circuit ?

Tanks for proving me right!

It would be a *very* small tank.

I think you mean that even a small tank could hold a LOT of photons.
(tank circuit, of course)

I was assuming one wanted a tank circuit to hold a single photon. ;-)

It is not the physical size, but the Q that would be important for holding
[the energy of] a single photon. You would want VERY low losses which would
imply a very high Q. That implies close matching between the photon's
frequency and the resonance of the tank.

The use of super conducting material and a temperature close to 0k would
make the capture and detection more feasable.




--
bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap