Method for determining the electron number in charge-coupled  measurement  devices

Bernd Stark; Bengt Noelting; Herbert Jahn; Karl Andert

doi:10.1117/12.56112

1 April 1992 Method for determining the electron number in charge-coupled measurement devices

Bernd Stark, Bengt Noelting, Herbert Jahn, Karl Andert

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 31, Issue 4, (April 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56112

Abstract

The conversion factor in a CCD device is determined by the photon transfer technique in a region where pure shot noise is not dominating, i.e., where noise of the readout electronics must be taken into account. The method is based on the measurement of the noise standard deviation, dependent on the intensity of the signal and the fifing of a simple model incorporating shot noise and signal-independent noise. The result is a linear equation system. From its solution the conversion factor and the standard deviation of the signal-independent noise of the device are determined. The mean number of generated charges is determined from the measured mean signal by means of the estimated conversion factor.

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Bernd Stark, Bengt Noelting, Herbert Jahn, and Karl Andert "Method for determining the electron number in charge-coupled measurement devices," Optical Engineering 31(4), (1 April 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56112

Published: 1 April 1992

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