Design and results of the fast timing photo-polarimeter OPTIMA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 82-93

  Kanbach, Gottfried ^a   Kellner, Stephan ^a   Schrey, Fritz ^a   Steinle, Helmut ^a   Straubmeier, Christian ^b   Spruit, Henk C ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fast timing; Photometry; Polarimetry; Single photon counting

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

PHOTOMETERS;

EID: 0038635893     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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