Faint flux performance of an EMCCD

Olivier Daigle; Claude Carignan; Sébastien Blais-Ouellette

doi:10.1117/12.669433

15 June 2006 Faint flux performance of an EMCCD

Olivier Daigle, Claude Carignan, Sébastien Blais-Ouellette

Proceedings Volume 6276, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy II; 62761F (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.669433
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

Thorough numerical simulations were run to test the performance of three processing methods of the data coming out from an electron multiplying charge coupled device (EMCCD), or low light level charge coupled device (L3CCD), operated at high gain, under real operating conditions. The effect of read-out noise and spurious charges is tested under various low flux conditions (0.001 event/pixel/frame< f < 20 events/pixel/frame). Moreover, a method for finding the value of the gain applied by the EMCCD amplification register is also developed. It allows one to determine the gain value to an accuracy of a fraction of a percent from dark frames alone.

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Olivier Daigle, Claude Carignan, and Sébastien Blais-Ouellette "Faint flux performance of an EMCCD", Proc. SPIE 6276, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy II, 62761F (15 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.669433

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