Individual photon counting using e2v L3 CCDs for low background astronomical spectroscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6276, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wen, Yiting ^a   Rauscher, Bernard J ^b   Baker, Robert G ^b   Clampin, Mark C ^b   Fochi, Peter ^e   Heap, Sara R ^b   Hilton, George ^a   Jorden, Paul ^d   Lindler, Don ^c   Mott, Brent ^b   Pool, Peter ^d   Waczynski, Augustyn ^f   Woodgate, Bruce ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d E2V TECHNOLOGIES   (United Kingdom)

^e e2v Technologies Inc   (United States)

^f Global Science and Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD; e2v; EMCCD; L3; Photon counting; Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

E2V; EMCCD; PHOTON-COUNTING;

ARRAYS; ASTRONOMY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33749618357     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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