Estimation of the squared modulus of the mutual intensity from high-light-level intensity measurements
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1995
Abstract
The problem of estimating the squared modulus of the mutual intensity (or the complex coherence factor) from high-light-level intensity measurements is addressed for the situation in which the fluctuations of the complex-valued amplitude are governed by circular-Gaussian statistics and the light level is high enough that all nonclassical fluctuations of the measurements can be ignored. A lower bound on the variance of any unbiased estimator is presented, and this bound is compared with the variance of Ebstein’s polynomial estimators [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8, 1450 (1991)] along with the variance of the maximum-likelihood estimator. © 1995 Optical Society of America.
Publication Title
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
Recommended Citation
Schulz, T.
(1995).
Estimation of the squared modulus of the mutual intensity from high-light-level intensity measurements.
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision,
12(6), 1331-1337.
http://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.12.001331
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