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Shot noise

Known as: Microbunching, Photon noise, Poisson noise 
Shot noise or Poisson noise is a type of electronic noise which can be modeled by a Poisson process.In electronics shot noise originates from the… 
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Additive white Gaussian noiseAnalogue electronicsBandwidth (signal processing)Burst noise

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Mesoscopic physics

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
THE EMERGENT 1.1–1.7 μm SPECTRUM OF THE EXOPLANET COROT-2B AS MEASURED USING THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
We have used Hubble/WFC3 and the G141 grism to measure the secondary eclipse of the transiting, very hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b in the… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Performance Optimization of Antenna-Coupled ${\rm Al}/{\rm AlO}_{x}/{\rm Pt}$ Tunnel Diode Infrared Detectors
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a valuable figure of merit in determining the operating scope of infrared detectors. Antenna… 
2011
2011
Masking of 4096-level intensity modulation signals by noises for secure communication employing Y-00 cipher protocol
Error-free operation of physical stream cipher based on Y-00 protocol using 4096-level intensity modulation signals is… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Primary and secondary eclipse spectroscopy with JWST exploring the exoplanet parameter space
Eclipse exoplanet spectroscopy has yielded detection of H_2O, CH_4, CO_2 and CO in the atmosphere of hot jupiters and neptunes… 
2009
2009
Bregman-EM-TV Methods with Application to Optical Nanoscopy
Measurements in nanoscopic imaging suffer from blurring effects concerning different point spread functions (PSF). Some apparatus… 
2000
2000
Technology options for imaging spectrometry
The principles for defining, comparing and calculating the signal-to-noise ratio performance of imaging spectrometers are… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Optical heterodyne detection in cavity ring-down spectroscopy
1997
1997
Photon generation by time-dependent dielectric: A soluble model
A soluble model of electromagnetic field interacting with time-dependent dielectric medium is given. The main assumption is that… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Correlation from randomness: quantitative analysis of ion-etched graphite surfaces using the scanning tunneling microscope
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Knox–Thompson and triple-correlation imaging through atmospheric turbulence
A comparative study is made of the Knox–Thompson and triple-correlation techniques as applied to image restoration. Both photon… 
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