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photon_statistics — PHOTON counting op

使い方

Poisson statistics of a photon-count frame: is it really shot-noise limited?

Returns a dict: mean · variance (population, ddof=0) · fano_factor = variance / mean (1 for a Poisson process) · snr_poisson = sqrt(mean) (the theoretical photon-limited SNR) · snr_measured = mean / std (what this frame actually achieved) · total_counts · n_samples · zero_fraction (the fraction of pixels that saw no photon at all — the honest measure of “photon starved”; exp(-lambda) for a flat field) · max_counts.

The Fano factor is evidence of Poisson statistics only on a flat field. On a structured scene the scene’s own spatial variance dominates and the ratio is large and meaningless — this op computes the number, it cannot tell you which situation you are in. Measured on the test scenes: a flat lambda = 100 field (512x512, seed 0) gives 1.001089; the same detector looking at a linear ramp from 20 to 180 photons gives 22.4102. Both are “correct” and only one of them means anything.

Raises ValueError: negative, non-finite or non-2-D counts, fewer than 2 pixels (no variance), an all-zero frame (fano_factor would be 0/0 — say “no photons were detected” instead of returning NaN), and a frame with exactly zero variance (snr_measured would be inf; for n >= 2 a constant frame is not a Poisson realisation but a synthetic constant, i.e. an input mistake).

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同カテゴリ(counting)

photon_sample · photon_uncertainty


Provenance: photoncount.py — PHOTON operator registry. この per-op ノートは tools/opdocs.py md が自動生成(手編集しない)。

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