Optical Dead Time Effects And Sub Poissonion Photo-Electron Counting Statistics

J. G. Walker; E. Jakeman

doi:10.1117/12.943710

27 March 1985 Optical Dead Time Effects And Sub Poissonion Photo-Electron Counting Statistics

J. G. Walker, E. Jakeman

Proceedings Volume 0492, 1984 European Conf on Optics, Optical Systems, and Applications; (1985) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943710
Event: 1984 European Conference on Optics, Optical Systems and Applications, 1984, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The use of dead time effects to generate sub-Poissonion photo-electron counting statistics is discussed. An experiment is described in which dead times are introduced using an optical shutter triggered by photo-detection events. Although the triggering photo-electron train is sub-Poissonion and antibunched, the light sampled by a second detector gives rise to a super-Poissonion and bunched train of photo-elecrons. A second experiment is proposed which would generate truly sub-Poisson light (ie detector independent). This is based on the use of optical dead times in parametric fluorescence.

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J. G. Walker and E. Jakeman "Optical Dead Time Effects And Sub Poissonion Photo-Electron Counting Statistics", Proc. SPIE 0492, 1984 European Conf on Optics, Optical Systems, and Applications, (27 March 1985); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943710

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