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Photon-Counting Statistics of Optical Scintillation

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Inverse Scattering Problems in Optics

Part of the book series: Topics in Current Physics ((TCPHY,volume 20))

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In contrast to the weak statistical scatterers and their first-order correlation and average scattered intensity studied in Sect.2.5, this chapter aims at strong scatterers and the fluctuations and higher-order correlations of the scattered radiation as explored by photon-counting techniques. The pertinent inverse detection and scattering problems are discussed with emphasis on a new class of distributions — the K distributions — which were recently found to characterize the fluctuations in scattered intensity for a wide class of experimental situations.

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Jakeman, E., Pusey, P.N. (1980). Photon-Counting Statistics of Optical Scintillation. In: Baltes, H.P. (eds) Inverse Scattering Problems in Optics. Topics in Current Physics, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81472-3_3

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