Statistics of photoelectron counting with a rectangular spectral profile
- 1 July 1973
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 63 (7), 826-831
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.63.000826
Abstract
Spheroidal functions appearing in many other contexts are used here to analyze the photoelectron-counting statistics of a polarized thermal light beam of rectangular spectral profile.Keywords
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