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Basic radiometry and SNR eq. for CCD, ICCD - UNIS

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Notation<br />

〈X〉 2 variance of X<br />

〈X〉 st<strong>and</strong>ard deviation of X<br />

X mean value of X<br />

Photon arrival is Poisson distributed<br />

It can be shown that <strong>for</strong> a Poisson distributed<br />

signal variance is <strong>eq</strong>ual to the mean<br />

<strong>UNIS</strong> 2011-11-15 – p. 37

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