Abstract
This chapter considers the relationship between the statistics of the photoelectron counting and that of the light falling on it. The probability distribution p (n) for the emission of n photoelectrons and some of the statistical constants associated with it as functions of the detecting time, the coherence time, and other statistical and spectral properties of the light beam falling on it are studied in the chapter. From the experimental measurements on the photoelectron counting, one can draw conclusions on the statistical properties of light which in turn have wide applications to fields such as spectroscopy and stellar interferometry. The basic quantity of interest, which enters in the formula for p(n), is the probability density P(W) of the light intensity integrated over a fixed time interval. The determination of the complete statistical distribution of the integrated light intensity from photocounting measurements is discussed in the chapter.
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