Wait-time Distributions for Photoelectric Detection of Light
Quantum Physics
2023-12-18 v1 Optics
Abstract
Wait-time distributions for the 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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@article{arxiv.2312.09339,
title = {Wait-time Distributions for Photoelectric Detection of Light},
author = {Luis Felipe Morales Bultron and Reeta Vyas and Surendra Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09339},
year = {2023}
}