Development of cross strip MCP detectors for UV and optical instruments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7435, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Siegmund, Oswald H W ^a   Tremsin, Anton S ^a   Vallerga, John V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High Resolution Imaging; Microchannel Plates; Position Sensitive Detectors

Indexed keywords

COUNTING RATES; CROSS-STRIP; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FPGA DESIGN; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; LOW COMPLEXITY; M-SCALE; MICRO CHANNEL PLATE; MICROCHANNEL PLATE DETECTOR; MICROCHANNEL PLATES; NON-LINEARITY; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SEALED TUBES; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; UV- AND;

ASTRONOMY; DETECTORS; FIRMWARE; GAMMA RAYS; MICROCHANNELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE STORAGE TUBES;

EID: 77953755869     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.831291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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