Faint flux performance of an EMCCD

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6276, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Daigle, Olivier ^a,b   Carignan, Claude ^a   Blais Ouellette, Sébastien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Photon Etc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation; EMCCD; IPCS; L3CCD

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION; EMCCD; IPCS; L3CCD;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES;

EID: 33749632467     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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