A photon-counting detector for exoplanet missions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8151, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Figer, D F ^a   Lee, J ^a   Hanold, B J ^a   Aull, B F ^b   Gregory, J A ^b   Schuette, D R ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

array; avalanche photodiode; detector; exoplanet; read noise

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; EXCESS NOISE FACTOR; EXOPLANET; GEIGER MODE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; HIGH FLUX; LONG DISTANCES; MISSION LIFETIME; PHOTON ARRIVAL; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON-COUNTING MODE; RADIATION DOSE; READ NOISE; READ-OUT CIRCUIT; SIGNAL CHAINS; SIGNAL TO NOISE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; NASA; PHOTONS; PIXELS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DETECTORS;

EID: 80053506554     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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