Observation of dead-time-modified photocounting distributions for modulated laser radiation
Malvin Carl Teich, Giovanni Vannucci
We report a series of optical experiments that verify the theoretical photocounting distributions obtained by Diament and Teich for triangularly and sinusoidally modulated laser radiation. Another series of experiments validates the (nonparalyzable) dead-time-modified versions of these formulas obtained by Cantor and Teich. A new expression is obtained for the counting distribution in the presence of modulation and paralyzable dead time. The results have application in photon counting, nuclear counting, and neural counting.
Journal of the Optical Society of America•Oct 1, 1978•32 citations