On the Poisson Approximation to Photon Distribution for Faint Lasers

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2007.03.004MaRDI QIDQ6469781zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yucheng Hu, Xiang Peng, Tiejun Li, Hong Guo

Publication date 23 September 2006

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2007.03.004

Abstract: It is proved, that for a certain kind of input distribution, the strongly binomially attenuated photon number distribution can well be approximated by a Poisson distribution. This explains why we can adopt poissonian distribution as the photon number statistics for faint lasers. The error of such an approximation is quantitatively estimated. Numerical tests are carried out, which coincide with our theoretical estimations. This work lays a sound mathematical foundation for the well-known intuitive idea which has been widely used in quantum cryptography.

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