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Abstract-The shot-noise-driven doubly stochastic Poisson point process (SNDP) describes the photodetection statistics for several kinds of luminescence radiation (e.%, cathodoluminescence). This process, which is bunched (clustered) in character and is associated with multiplied (rate Poisson noise, has many applications in pulse, particle, and photon detection. In this work we describe ways in which dead time can be used to constructively enhance or diminish the effects of point processes that display such bunching, according to whether they are signal or noise. We discuss in some detail the subtle interrelations betweekphotocoun