High-speed SALT instrument CCD detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5499, Issue , 2004, Pages 406-413

  O'Donoghue, Darragh ^a   Balona, Luis A ^a   Carter, Dave B ^a   Evans, Geoff P ^a   Fourie, Piet ^a   Koorts, Willie P ^a   O'Connor, James ^a   Osman, Faranah ^a   Petersen, Chantal ^a   Steyn, Hendrik ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

High time resolution; Optical imaging; Optical spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

HIGH TIME RESOLUTION; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; THE SOUTH AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE (SALT);

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 19944430697     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552910     Document Type: Conference Paper

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