Photocount statistics in mesoscopic optics.
We report the first observation of the impact of mesoscopic fluctuations on the photocount statistics of coherent light scattered in a random medium. A Poisson photocount distribution of the incident light widens and gains additional asymmetry upon transmission through a suspension of small dielectric spheres. The effect is only appreciable when the average number n of photocounts becomes comparable or larger than the effective dimensionless conductance g of the sample.
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Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Scheffold
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Skipetrov
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