Photon-counting statistics of pulsed light sources
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 7 (11) , 529-531
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.7.000529
Abstract
We report measurement of the photon-counting distributions of nanosecond-duration light pulses. Photon counting is performed on light sources with widely different photon statistics, such as (1) a Q-switched Nd:YAG-laser-pumped dye laser operating well above threshold and producing single-mode nanosecond pulses, (2) the same laser operating close to threshold, and (3) a rotating ground-glass aberrator illuminated by the laser pulses of case (1). The method is particularly suitable for the investigation of the statistics of light generated by the nonlinear interaction of radiation with matter.Keywords
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