http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00412
A hierarchy of statistics of increasing sophistication and accuracy is proposed, to exploit an interesting and fundamental arithmetic structure in the photon bunching noise of incoherent light of large photon occupation number, with the purpose of suppressing the noise and rendering a more reliable and unbiased measurement of the light intensity. The method does not require any new hardware, rather it operates at the software level, with the help of high precision computers, to reprocess the intensity time series of the incident light to create a new series with smaller bunching noise coherence length. The ultimate accuracy improvement of this method of flux measurement is limited by the timing resolution of the detector, the precision of the computer in manipulating numbers, and the photon occupation number of the beam (the higher the photon number the better the performance). The principal application is sensitivity enhancement of radio astronomical observations.
R. Lieu
Fri, 2 Dec 16
18/70
Comments: 13 pages, 64 equations
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