Very fast photon counting photometers for astronomical applications: From QuantEYE to AquEYE

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6583, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Naletto, Giampiero ^a   Barbieri, Cesare ^a   Occhipinti, Tommaso ^a   Tamburini, Fabrizio ^a   Billotta, Sergio ^b   Cocuzza, Silvio ^c   Dravins, Dainis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^c Center of Studies and Activities for Space GColombo   (Italy)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SCATTERING; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL APPLICATIONS; EXTREMELY-LARGE TELESCOPE; PHOTON SCATTERING; PHOTON STREAM;

PHOTOMETERS;

EID: 36048988424     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.723842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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