Can sound turn into light?

Answer 1

Yes it could!
Schrödinger's equation describes the wave-like behaviour of particles in quantum mechanics.
Solutions of this equation are wave functions which can be used to describe the probability density of a particle.
Quantum mechanics also describes particle properties that other waves, such as light and sound, have on the atomic scale and below.

Answer 2

The device in which sound is turned into light is called a Photophone. First you will have to understand that sound doesn't convert into light, sound waves are just carried by light waves. Sound waves cannot travel without a medium. Light acts as a medium in this case.
In a Photophone, there is a hollow tube connected to a mirror. A beam of light is falling on that mirror. When a person speaks into the tube, the sound waves generated by the person's voice vibrate the mirror. The beam of light falling on the mirror vibrates in the same way. There is a selenium(a light-sensitive element) plate on the recieving end of the photophone, which converts the light vibrations into electrical impulses which vibrate a speaker. This way, sound turn into light. The same technology is used in fiber-optics communication.

If you want to know it in a better way, click on the link below in the source. You will get a picture of a photophone and an idea that how it works?.

Answer 3

Yes.

There is an Electro-Optical device called an Acoustic Optical Modulator (AOM) that turns sound into light. sound waves passed through a crystal affect the light that passes through the device by changing the index of refraction of the crystal.

In one application, if the input optical frequency is f_opt and the AOM frequency is f_aom then the OPTICAL frequency of the light out of the device is: f_opt + f_aom.

There is another device called an Electro-Optical Modulator (EOM) while similar to the AOM is very different.

Answer 4

No. Sound waves and light waves are totally different physical processes. Sound waves are a compression wave in a material medium and cannot travel in a vacuum. Sound is conducted, not radiated. Light is an electromagnetic wave. It is "kinks" in the electric and magnetic field that exists around things that emit light. It travels at very high speed and radiates even in a vacuum.

Answer 5

sound could conceivably create light, but it wouldn't turn into light. if the sound was of a high enough intensity it could compress the air enough to actually warm it up so that it glows, similar to what a meteor does as it slashes through the sky, the air in front of it gets compressed until its burns.

Answer 6

sound is the propagation of waves in a media atoms and molecules bounce into each other and cause them as a media to react.

light does not require a media, its the emission of radiation of a specific wavelength, and it comes from electrons changing their orbits in an atom. (what a poor decription)

so basically these are two very different phenomena

Answer 7

No, unlike heat, sound isn't an energy. Its only waves bouncing off air molecules.

Answer 8

Thru a transducer.

Answer 9

nope

Answer 10

no not that i know of