Photocount statistics in mesoscopic optics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Optics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report the first observation of the impact of mesoscopic fluctuations on the photocount statistics of coherent light scattered in a random medium. Poisson photocount distribution of the incident light widens and gains additional asymmetry upon transmission through a suspension of small dielectric spheres. The effect is only appreciable when the average number <n> of photocounts becomes comparable or larger than the effective dimensionless conductance g of the sample.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0511402,
title = {Photocount statistics in mesoscopic optics},
author = {S. Balog and P. Zakharov and F. Scheffold and S. E. Skipetrov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0511402},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Thoroughly revised text and figures, new data set, new figure added