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Statistics of photocounts recorded by a detector with variable quantum efficiency

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We consider a problem of distribution of counts from an optical photodetector recording a non-polarized radiation field with properties of normal Markovian process. The well-known Mandel formula describing the probability P(n) of recording of n photocounts per observation interval (0, T) is generalized to the case of a detector with time-dependent quantum efficiency ε(t).

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Khar’kov State Polytechnical University, Ukraine. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 41, No. 8, pp. 999–1007, August, 1998.

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Mazmanishvili, A.S. Statistics of photocounts recorded by a detector with variable quantum efficiency. Radiophys Quantum Electron 41, 674–679 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02676477

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