My initial thought is “no,” since our eyes, being receivers for specific wavelengths of EM radiation, can’t see frequencies like infrared, no matter how bright. Likewise, my cell phone’s WiFi and cell modules don’t conflict with each other (as far as this layperson can tell, anyway).

But if, for example, infrared were sufficiently bright/energetic, could it affect neighboring frequencies, like reds?

  • Dubidu1212@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It depends on whether the light is within a medium or just in vacuum. Afaik light in vacuum behaves entirely linear (so waves of different frequencies don’t interact). But there are materials where light does indeed interact with light of different frequencies. One effect like this is so-called four-wave mixing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-wave_mixing?wprov=sfla1

    In general you can take a look at non linear optics

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      1 year ago

      I will! Thank you! Also, it’s super fun that there’s exceptions based on the medium; I had no idea. I was picturing air or vacuum when I conceived of the original question, so now I have other things to look into!