Quant EYE: A Quantum optics instrument for extremely large telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Naletto, Giampiero ^a   Barbieri, Cesare ^a   Dravins, Dainis ^b   Occhipinti, Tommaso ^a   Tamburini, Fabrizio ^a   Da Deppo, Vania ^a   Fornasier, Sonia ^a   D'Onofrio, Mauro ^a   Fosbury, Robert A E ^c   Nilsson, Ricky ^b   Uthas, Helena ^b   Zampieri, Luca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Extremely large telescope; High speed photometry; Quantum optics

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; AVALANCHE DIODES; DETECTORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; EXTREMELY-LARGE TELESCOPES; HIGH-SPEED PHOTOMETRY;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 33749349504     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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