Cascaded stochastic processes in optics
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چکیده
and key words Thirty years ago, Bernard Picinbono and his colleagues carefully addressed an important problem : how an optical field is converted into a sequence of photoelectrons upon detection . Their choice of problem could not have been better, nor thei r timing more judicious. In a paper entitled "Photoelectron Shot Noise", published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics in 1970, when quantum optics was in its infancy, they obtained results that were to serve as an important building block i n analyzing and generating many different forms of Tight . We present some variations on the theme of cascaded stochasti c processes in optics . Poisson process, shot noise, self-exciting process, doubly-stochastic process, compound Poisson process, doubly-Poisson , triggered optical emissions, multiply-Poisson, cascaded-Poisson, correlated-Poisson, nonclassical light, sub-Poisson light .
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