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- Sometimes I see a Poisson distribution, sometimes I do not, I don't understand why
My setup:
I have the an LED (LED370E) in front of a photodiode (S12915-16R). The photodiode is connected to an ADC (DT5751) which has a counting functionality. The way it works is that it counts how many times the signal goes above a certain threshold and makes a histogram out of it.
I know that photons often follow Poissonian Distributions, but I am aware that Super and Sub poissonian light also exists.
The mark of a Poissonian distribution is that sigma^2 = mean, so I made Poissonian distributions with the same mean as the measurements from the ADC. Here is how 2 of them look like:
The difference between these two measurements is that the one on the left was taken with the LED at 6.5 volts, and the one on the right at 2.5.
First thing I don't understand: why does one fit the Poissonian distribution and the other doesn't?, what kind of noise is affecting my measurement?.
Second things I don't understand: I have read in https://camera.hamamatsu.com/jp/en/technical_guides/photon_shot_noise/index.html that the Shot Noise is equal to the square root of the signal. Is the Shot Noise the same as the Standard Deviation?, is Shot Noise = Sigma?.
I have the an LED (LED370E) in front of a photodiode (S12915-16R). The photodiode is connected to an ADC (DT5751) which has a counting functionality. The way it works is that it counts how many times the signal goes above a certain threshold and makes a histogram out of it.
I know that photons often follow Poissonian Distributions, but I am aware that Super and Sub poissonian light also exists.
The mark of a Poissonian distribution is that sigma^2 = mean, so I made Poissonian distributions with the same mean as the measurements from the ADC. Here is how 2 of them look like:
The difference between these two measurements is that the one on the left was taken with the LED at 6.5 volts, and the one on the right at 2.5.
First thing I don't understand: why does one fit the Poissonian distribution and the other doesn't?, what kind of noise is affecting my measurement?.
Second things I don't understand: I have read in https://camera.hamamatsu.com/jp/en/technical_guides/photon_shot_noise/index.html that the Shot Noise is equal to the square root of the signal. Is the Shot Noise the same as the Standard Deviation?, is Shot Noise = Sigma?.