Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to study the first-order photoelectron statistics for the ideal optical heterodyne situation (perfect alignment of the incident signal wave and the local oscillator wave) in the presence of a Gaussian noise background. The phases of the signal wave and the local oscillator wave are taken to be nonuniformly distributed over (−π, π). We investigate the probability density of the time-integrated intensity, the probability distribution of the detected photoelectrons, and the corresponding means and variances. Two different optical heterodyning situations are studied.
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