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A simple relation is found between the probability distribution of time of arrival of photoevents and the moment-generating function of the detected optical energy of a general stationary optical field. This is applied to the case of a Gaussian-Lorentzian field and the case of a mixture of coherent and thermal light.
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Bahaa E. A. Saleh (1974) studied this question.
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