[time-nuts] laser as clock source

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu May 5 10:16:40 UTC 2016


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In message <11200676-5915-28f2-d6f6-c69b11fd9baf at iliaplatone.com>, Ilia Platone
 writes:

>Is it possible to use the photon flux of a laser as clock source using a 
>sensor in photon-counting mode?

As far as I know:  Photon-counters only work at low rate of photons
and lasers only work at high rate of photons.


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