> but the receiver has no gain, the energy it traps depends only on its area. Is that true though? Isn’t this one of those “wave / particle duality” things? Li

> but the receiver has no gain, the energy it traps depends only on its area. Is that true though? Isn’t this one of those “wave / particle duality” things? Like if you treat the photons as particles the “area” thing makes sense but as a wave, does it?