EMCCD technology and its impact on rapid low-light photometry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5499, Issue , 2004, Pages 162-172

  Smith, N ^a   Coates, C ^b   Giltinan, A ^a   Howard, J ^a   O'Connor, A ^a   O'Driscoll, S ^a   Hauser, M ^c   Wagner, S ^c  

^a Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^b OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLASMA TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blazar; CCD; Differential Photometry; Electron Multiplying CCD; ICCD; Radio Intermediate Quasar

Indexed keywords

BLAZARS; DIFFERENTIAL PHOTOMETRY; ELECTRON MULTIPLYING CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ICCD; RADIO-INTERMEDIATE QUASARS;

CAMERAS; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RELIABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES;

EID: 12744263381     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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