shot noise

English

Noun

shot noise (countable and uncountable, plural shot noises)

  1. A kind of noise that can be modelled by a Poisson process, originating in electronics from the discrete nature of electric charge, and associated with the particle nature of light in photon counting in optical devices.
    Synonym: Poisson noise
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