AUTOCORRELATION CENTRAL HOLE IN CLIPPED PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTION - ESTIMATION FROM THE ZERO-COUNT PROBABILITY DENSITY

In this paper we develop a procedure to avoid the autocorrelation cent ral hole that appears in clipped photon-counting detection. This metho d can be understood as a higher order approximation than the Hofmann p rocedure. It can be applied in combination with any of the alternative methods to evaluate the autocorrelation function in clipped condition s proposed up until the present. We especially analyse that based on t he zero-count probability measurement. Fairly good autocorrelation est imates are obtained for low intensity signals.