Meanings
nounphotocounter (plural photocounters)
plural photocounters
- A device that counts photons.
Generalized complete Bell polynomials are used in order to compute joint moments and joint cumulants of multivariate photocounters.
2015, Elvira Di Nardo, “On photon statistics parametrized by a non-central Wishart random matrix”, in arXiv
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