PHOTON-COUNTING STATISTICS - UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIMENT

Authors
KOCZYK P WIEWIOR P RADZEWICZ C
Citation
P. Koczyk et al., PHOTON-COUNTING STATISTICS - UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIMENT, American journal of physics, 64(3), 1996, pp. 240-245
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
American journal of physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029505
Volume
64
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
240 - 245
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9505(1996)64:3<240:PS-UE>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
A photon counting experiment for student physics laboratory is describ ed. It is designed to illustrate the probabilistic nature of the photo detection process itself as well as statistical fluctuations of light. The setup enables the student to measure photon count distributions f or both coherent and pseudothermal light sources yielding Poisson and Bose-Einstein distributions, respectively. (C) 1996 American Associati on of Physics Teachers.