High accuracy calibration of photon-counting detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6372, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Polyakov, Sergey V ^a,b   Ware, Michael ^c   Migdall, Alan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Correlated photons; Detector; Down conversion; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR UNDER TEST (DUT); PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTORS; TIME-DELAY HISTOGRAM;

CALIBRATION; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 33846203913     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.685248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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