An avalanche photodiode photon counting camera for high-resolution astronomy

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-30

  Ryan, Oliver ^a   Redfern, Mike ^a   Shearer, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Detectors; Fibre optic; Optical pulsars; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845500073     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-006-9056-z     Document Type: Article

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