Characterisation of photon counting systems at NPL

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7681, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Theocharous, Evangelos ^a   Cheung, Jessica ^a   Chunnilall, Christopher ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linearity of response; Photon counting systems; Responsivity; Spatial uniformity of response; Stability of response

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; DETECTION SYSTEM; DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; FUNCTION OF TIME; KEY PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; LINEAR RESPONSE; NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPTICAL METROLOGY; OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING SYSTEM; RESPONSIVITY; SPATIAL UNIFORMITY OF RESPONSE; SPECTRAL RESPONSIVITY; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

DETECTORS; LABORATORIES; LINEARIZATION; PHOTONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 77953764867     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.851861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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