In an experiment to measure the photon statistics of thermal light, the radiation from a blackbody...

In an experiment to measure the photon statistics of thermal light, the radiation from a blackbody source is filtered with an interference filter of bandwidth 0.1 nm centered on 500 nm, and allowed to fall on a photon-counting detector. Calculate the number of modes incident on the detector, and hence discuss the type of statistics that would be expected.

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