AquEYE, a single photon counting photometer for astronomy

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 56, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 261-272

  Barbieri, C ^a   Naletto, G ^a,b   Occhipinti, T ^a   Facchinetti, C ^a   Verroi, E ^a   Giro, E ^c   Di Paola, A ^d   Billotta, S ^e   Zoccarato, P ^a   Bolli, P ^g   Tamburini, F ^a   Bonanno, G ^e   D'Onofrio, M ^a   Marchi, S ^a,f   Anzolin, G ^a   Capraro, I ^a   Messina, F ^g   Belluso, M ^e   Pernechele, C ^g   Zaccariotto, M ^a   Zampieri, L ^c   Da Deppo, V ^b   Fornasier, S ^b   Pedichini, F ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g INAF Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari   (Italy)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; High speed photometry; Quantum optics; Single photon detectors

Indexed keywords

EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; FOUR CHANNELS; HIGH-SPEED PHOTOMETRY; INDEPENDENT CHANNELS; INTERNAL OSCILLATORS; PHOTON COUNTS; RUBIDIUM CLOCKS; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES; TIME TAGGING; TIME TAGS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; AVALANCHE DIODES; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; GAS DETECTORS; JITTER; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM;

PHOTONS;

EID: 65349172919     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340802450565     Document Type: Article

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