A new low-noise high-quantum-efficiency speckle imaging system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 777-785

  Horch, Elliott P ^a   Ninkov, Zoran ^a   Van Altena, William F ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CCDs; Piezoelectric actuators; Speckle imaging

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTONS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECKLE; TELESCOPES; TOOLS;

ACTIVE AREAS; BURST MODES; CCD IMAGER; CCDS; DATA COLLECTIONS; DATA FRAMES; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES; LARGE FORMATS; LINEAR RESPONSE; LOW NOISE; PHOTON-COUNTING; PHOTON-COUNTING CAMERAS; ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGIES; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPECKLE IMAGES; SPECKLE IMAGING; SPECKLE PATTERNS; STEP AND SCANS; TIP-TILT MIRRORS; VERY LOW NOISE;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 62849103034     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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