Spectroscopy from the Point of View of the Communication Theory Part III The Amount of Information in a Spectrum
- 1 August 1953
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 43 (8) , 664-668
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.43.000664
Abstract
The spectroscope is considered as a communication channel. The message space is the class of all possible spectra, which are essentially sets of randomly spaced delta functions of Gaussian amplitude distribution. Hence the capacity of the channel can be evaluated by Shannon’s formula,Keywords
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