Hi At least back “a few” years ago … counting photons was a pretty good way to generate random numbers. It’s sort of like looking at current flow. The discrete nature of the process shows up if you look carefully enough.
Bob > On May 5, 2016, at 12:55 AM, Ilia Platone <i...@iliaplatone.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to use the photon flux of a laser as clock source using a > sensor in photon-counting mode? > > Or the photon rate will be chaotic and unstable (as I think but wanted to > know)? > > Regards, > Ilia. > > -- > Ilia Platone > via Ferrara 54 > 47841 > Cattolica (RN), Italy > Cell +39 349 1075999 > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
