Scalable time-correlated photon counting system with multiple independent input channels

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Wahl, Michael ^a   Rahn, Hans Jürgen ^a   Röhlicke, Tino ^a   Kell, Gerald ^b   Nettels, Daniel ^c   Hillger, Frank ^c   Schuler, Ben ^c   Erdmann, Rainer ^a  

^a PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; FLUORESCENCE; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT; PHOTOEXCITATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

AND DETECTIONS; ARRIVAL TIMES; CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS; CORRELATED PHOTONS; DETECTED PHOTONS; DETECTION CHANNELS; DIGITIZERS; EVENT PROCESSING; FLUORESCENCE DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; HIGH SPEEDS; HISTOGRAMMING; HOST COMPUTERS; INDEPENDENT CRYSTALS; INPUT CHANNELS; MODULAR DESIGNS; NEW APPLICATIONS; NEW INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; PICO SECONDS; POST-PROCESSING; PROGRAMMABLE LOGICS; REAL TIMES; RELATIVE TIMINGS; SERIAL LINKS; SHORT LIGHT PULSES; SINGLE MOLECULES; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; THROUGHPUT RATES; TIME TAGGING; TIME-RESOLVED;

PHOTONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149237483     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3055912     Document Type: Article

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