Abstract

The onefold photoelectron-counting statistics (e.g., probability distribution and moments) are obtained when the physical system under study contains an arbitrary number of independent weak (i.e., nonuniform phase) scatterers. The results are generalized by letting the number of scatterers be random and be governed by a Poisson distribution.

© 1983 Optical Society of America

Direct derivation of intensity and phase statistics of speckle produced by a weak scatterer from the random sinusoid model

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Onefold photoelectron-counting statistics of mixtures of thermal and coherent radiation

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Photoelectron Count Distributions Due to Periodic Irradiance Modulation*†

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Weak-scatterer generalization of the K-density function with application to laser scattering in atmospheric turbulence

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