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. 1999 Nov 23;96(24):13756–13761. doi: 10.1073/pnas.96.24.13756

Table 1.

Results of fitting photon count number distributions

Sample a2 a3 C q, kHz χ2
Rh6G −0.380  ± 0.009 0.077  ± 0.003 0.461  ± 0.003 107.2  ± 0.8 0.97
TMR −0.427  ± 0.032 0.084  ± 0.014 1.517  ± 0.012 36.56  ± 0.29 0.81
Mixture −0.380 (fixed) 0.077 (fixed) 0.103  ± 0.012 109.1  ± 4.0 0.77
0.738  ± 0.011 37.4  ±1.0

In all cases, the background count rate was fixed to the value of 1.05 kHz, as measured with deionized water. a2 and a3 are prenormalization values when a1 is fixed to 1.0. Errors shown are theoretical errors returned by the fitting algorithm multiplied by an empirical factor of three.