A conceptual experiment on single-beam coincidence detection with pseudothermal light

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 12386-12394

  Basano, Lorenzo ^a   Ottonello, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BEAMS INTENSITY; PSEUDOTHERMAL LIGHT; SINGLE-BEAMS; TWO-BEAM EXPERIMENTS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 34648831720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012386     Document Type: Article

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