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Etymology edit

photo- +‎ counting

Noun edit

photocounting (uncountable)

  1. The counting of photons.
    • 2015, Elvira Di Nardo, “On photon statistics parametrized by a non-central Wishart random matrix”, in arXiv[1]:
      The role played by spectral statistics of random matrices is highlighted in approximating the overall photocounting distribution when acting intensities are modeled by a non-central Wishart random matrix.