ULTRASPEC-An electron multiplication CCD camera for very low light level high speed astronomical spectrometry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7021, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ives, Derek ^a   Bezawada, Nagaraja ^a   Dhillon, Vik ^b   Marsh, Tom ^c  

^a Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CLock; EMCCD; Induced charge; ULTRASPEC

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE GAINS; CLOCK INDUCED CHARGE; ELECTRON MULTIPLICATION; EMCCD; FRAME TRANSFER DEVICES; FRAME-TRANSFER; HIGH-SPEED ELECTRONS; INDUCED CHARGE; LOW LIGHT LEVEL; OPTICAL DETECTORS; ULTRASPEC;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CLOCKS; DETECTORS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; INFRARED DETECTORS; LIGHT; RADIATION DAMAGE; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 66749119993     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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