Novel technique for photon correlation measurements at high photon rates and resolutions

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1792-1798

  Stoyanov, Dimitar V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Overlapping; Photon correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342952864     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601367     Document Type: Article

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