Branching processes in quantum electronics

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1450-1456

  Teich, Malvin Carl ^a   Saleh, Bahaa E A ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Branching process; Cascaded stochastic process; Cascaded Poisson process; Compound Poisson process; Doubly poisson process; Doubly stochastic process; Filtered Poisson process; Fluctuations; Gain; Laser; Multiply Poisson process; Noise

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; BRANCHING PROCESSES; POISSON PROCESSES;

AVALANCHE DIODES; FEEDBACK; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SHOT NOISE;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0034313095     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.902200     Document Type: Article

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