Photon counting statistics - Undergraduate experiment

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 240-245

  Koczyk, P ^a   Wiewior P ^a   Radzewicz, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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EID: 0030549883     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18211     Document Type: Article

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