Photon counting and Laguerre detection (Corresp.)
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Vol. 18 (1) , 208-211
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1972.1054733
Abstract
In this correspondence maximum-likelihood binary detection theory is applied to an incoherent optical system model employing photodetectors governed by Laguerre counting statistics. It is shown that a maximum-likelihood Laguerre detector corresponds to a count comparison over each signaling interval. Laguerre error probabilities are presented and compared with those for Poisson counting.Keywords
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