title: Photocount statistics in mesoscopic optics.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Balog
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zakharov
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scheffold
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Skipetrov