Abstract

We introduce an analytical model of the influence of paralyzable dead time on registered photon-correlation functions. Distortions of correlation functions in the case of the Poisson point process, the doubly stochastic Poisson point process, and the pairwise point process are calculated. The model permits the analysis of detection systems with constant and random dead times. The results of the analytical model are tested by computer simulation.

© 1995 Optical Society of America

Correction of detection-system dead-time effects on photon-correlation functions

K. Schätzel, R. Kalström, B. Stampa, and J. Ahrens
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6(5) 937-947 (1989)

Effects of dead time and afterpulses in photon detector on measured statistics of stochastic radiation

Victor Kornilov
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 31(1) 7-15 (2014)

Dead-time distortion in fluorescence correlation measurements

Goro Nishimura and Masataka Kinjo
Appl. Opt. 44(17) 3458-3467 (2005)

Dead-time-modified photocount mean and variance for chaotic radiation

Giovanni Vannucci and Malvin Carl Teich
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(2) 164-170 (1981)

Inhomogeneous Poisson process rate function inference from dead-time limited observations

Gunjan Verma and Robert J. Drost
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34(5) 770-782 (2017)