(1) Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, 600 025 Madras, India
Abstract:
A complete solution is given to the problem of calculating the dead time corrections to the counting statistics of an arbitrary
doubly stochastic Poisson process with a non-negative random intensity function. It is shown that for the particular case
of an optical field with constant intensity, the general dead time modified counting formula leads to a corrected version
of results earlier derived by Bedard.