Rapid wide-field photon counting imaging with microsecond time resolution

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 25292-25298

  Sergent, Nicolas ^a   Levitt, James A ^a   Green, Mark ^a   Suhling, Klaus ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PILES;

DETECTION SYSTEM; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON-COUNTING IMAGING; POLYOXOMETALATES; PULSED EXCITATION; TIME RESOLVED IMAGING; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; WIDE FIELD IMAGING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 78649696470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025292     Document Type: Article

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