Wait-time Distributions for Photoelectric Detection of Light
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09339v1
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:03:14 GMT
- Title: Wait-time Distributions for Photoelectric Detection of Light
- Authors: Luis Felipe Morales Bultron, Reeta Vyas, and Surendra Singh
- Abstract summary: Wait-time distributions for the $n$th photo-detection at a detector illuminated by a stationary light beam are studied.
Simple analytic expressions are presented for several classical and quantum sources of light.
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- Abstract: Wait-time distributions for the $n$th photo-detection at a detector
illuminated by a stationary light beam are studied. Both unconditional
measurements, initiated at an arbitrary instant, and conditional measurements,
initiated upon a photo-detection, are considered. Simple analytic expressions
are presented for several classical and quantum sources of light and are used
to quantify and compare photon sequences generated by them. These distributions
can be measured in photon counting experiments and are useful in characterizing
and generating photon sequences with prescribed statistics. Effects of non-unit
detection efficiency are also discussed, and curves are presented to illustrate
the behavior.
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