A New Product For Photon-Limited Imaging

Thomas Gonsiorowski

doi:10.1117/12.968139

13 October 1986 A New Product For Photon-Limited Imaging

Thomas Gonsiorowski

Proceedings Volume 0627, Instrumentation in Astronomy VI; (1986) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968139
Event: 1986 Astronomy Conferences, 1986, Tucson, United States

Abstract

Adaptive Optics Associates, Inc. (AOA) has recently constructed a new commercial low-light imaging detector which we call the P4oton Digitizing Camera (PDC). Based on the PAPA detector developed at Harvard Universityl", the PDC generates (x,y,t) coordinate data of each detected photo-event. .Because the positional address computation is performed opti-cally, very high counting rates are achieved even at full spatial resolution. Careful optomechanical and electronic design results in a compact, rugged detector with superb per-formance. The PDC will be used for speckle imaging of astronomical sources and other astro-nomical and low-light applications.

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Thomas Gonsiorowski "A New Product For Photon-Limited Imaging", Proc. SPIE 0627, Instrumentation in Astronomy VI, (13 October 1986); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.968139

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