Noise in Photoemission Current
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 4 (1), 79-80
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.4.000079
Abstract
The statistics of photoemission as computed based on a Poisson distribution of incident photons, and a binomial distribution for the photocurrent, exactly obeys a Poisson distribution so that the fluctuation in the photocurrent is just that associated with the standard deviation of a Poisson distribution. This is compared with some results in the literature.Keywords
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