Photon counting strategies with low-light-level CCDs
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Photon counting strategies with low light level CCDs
Low light level charge coupled devices (L3CCDs) have recently been developed, incorporating on-chip gain. They may be operated to give an effective readout noise much less than one electron by implementing an on-chip gain process allowing the detection of individual photons. However, the gain mechanism is stochastic and so introduces significant extra noise into the system. In this paper we exa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.07020.x