'Read noise' presentation slideshows

Digital microscopy: Image detectors and software control

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Astronomical Observational Techniques and Instrumentation

Astronomical Observational Techniques and Instrumentation. RIT Course Number 1060-771 Professor Don Figer Quantum-Limited Detectors. Aims for this lecture. Motivate the need for future detectors Describe physical principles of future detectors

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Design Considerations for Directly Imaging Earth-like Exoplanets

Design Considerations for Directly Imaging Earth-like Exoplanets . Garreth Ruane gjr8334@rit.edu Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Near-Infrared Astronomy

Near-Infrared Astronomy. 0.8-5 ? m How is it different from the optical? Night sky & thermal emission Atmospheric absorption Detectors Instruments What does this mean? Beam switching/nodding/chopping Careful calibration of data Some data Imaging Spectroscopy. >7.5 magnitudes!.

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Optimisation of an EMCCD

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MIT LL No. MS-43282, ESC No. 09-1097

Zero Read Noise Detectors for the TMT Don Figer, Brian Ashe , John Frye, Brandon Hanold, Tom Montagliano, Don Stauffer (RIDL), Brian Aull, Bob Reich, Dan Schuette, Jim Gregory, Erik Duerr, Joseph Donnelly (MIT/LL). MIT LL No. MS-43282, ESC No. 09-1097. Outline. Motivation

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BalloonWinds Status Update

BalloonWinds Status Update. Presented By: Michael Dehring June 29, 2005. Discussion Outline. Review of Flight Schedule and Goals Program Status System changes since last meeting Engineering Hardware Update: Build and Design Progress Current Best Estimate Performance.

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Bob Fiete, Ph.D. Chief Technologist Dan Newman, Ph.D. Program Manager, Sensor Products

ITT Space Systems Sensor Technologies. Bob Fiete, Ph.D. Chief Technologist Dan Newman, Ph.D. Program Manager, Sensor Products. ITT Space Systems Division (SSD) Principal Businesses And Their Solutions. Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (ISR)

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Bob Fiete, Ph.D. Chief Technologist Dan Newman, Ph.D. Program Manager, Sensor Products

ITT Space Systems Sensor Technologies. Bob Fiete, Ph.D. Chief Technologist Dan Newman, Ph.D. Program Manager, Sensor Products. ITT Space Systems Division (SSD) Principal Businesses And Their Solutions. Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (ISR)

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UKIRT Auto-guider Performance

UKIRT Auto-guider Performance. UKIRT Servo Block Diagram. Auto-guider performance factors. Detector read noise Detector efficiency I.e.: (detected photons)/(incident photons) Tip-Tilt system performance Filtering and/or estimating Total Loop Latency

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MMT Megacam

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SCIENTIFIC CMOS PIXELS

SCIENTIFIC CMOS PIXELS. JIM JANESICK SARNOFF CORPORATION JULY 1, 2004 CMOSCCD@AOL.COM. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Jim Andrews Sarnoff Corporation CN5300, 201 Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08543-5300 Benjamin Muto, Mark Muzilla DRS TECHNOLOGIES Sensors & Targeting Systems

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Outline

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Palomar Tomograph

Palomar Tomograph. V. Velur 1 , B. Platt 2 , M. Britton 1, R. Dekany 1 1 Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology 2 Interferometry and Large Optics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Introduction:.

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Pan-STARRS observational requirements specification

Pan-STARRS observational requirements specification. Outline. Benchmark design specs Telescopes Detectors Pipeline Data products Precision goals Specification of observational requirements Format for input to science DWG. Pan-STARRS in a Nutshell. Who?

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Pan-STARRS observational requirements specification

Pan-STARRS observational requirements specification. Outline. Benchmark design specs Telescopes Detectors Pipeline Data products Precision goals Specification of observational requirements Format for input to science DWG. Pan-STARRS in a Nutshell. Who?

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The JWST Detector Characterization Project in the Independent Detector Testing Laboratory

The JWST Detector Characterization Project in the Independent Detector Testing Laboratory Don Figer, STScI/JHU January 9, 2003 AAS 201 Seattle, WA. 4. 1.E+02. Sunshield. Dark current =. -. 0.126 e. /sec. 1.E+01. -. 0.020 e. /sec. Spectra. 3. JWST requirement. -.

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ACA meeting July 2009

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Make it Rigid

Make it Rigid. Ca++. Application: Calcium sensing. Stark effect. Application: Membrane Voltage Sensing. TIRF Microscope. Setting up the TIRF microscope. Objective-TIRF. Prism-TIRF. Sensitivity of Fluorescence Microscope. Signal New concept: absorption cross-section

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Dynamic Range

Dynamic Range. DR(dB) = 20*log(Vsat / Vnoise). Example: 1V max linear output from pixel 200uV input referred read noise DR = 74 dB. Stouffer Chart. Reading the chart. Enhance contrast, and find last visible step. Every step is 2dB in dynamic range. HDR sensor Stouffer Chart. Tint2.

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