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A quantum description of light passing through the turbulent atmosphere recently proposed by Tatarski is developed for arbitrary statistics of incident light, moments of arbitrary order are calculated and a modified photodetection equation is derived. Another description by Diament and Teich is shown to be also quantum but both the descriptions are valid under various conditions. A comparison of the Tatarski and Diament and Teich descriptions is performed and results for the monochromatic coherent state of a field are discussed as a special case.
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The author thanks Dr. V. Peřinová and Dr. L. Mišta for discussions and help with calculations.
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Peřina, J. On the photon counting statistics of light passing through an inhomogeneous random medium. Czech J Phys 22, 1075–1084 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01690123
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01690123