Efficient Tow-Dimensional Photon Counting for high-S/N Measurements of Weak Spectra

High-Efficiency Error Correction for Photon Counting

Today's data-driven society demands high data rates and high-rate communication links. Addressing these needs in everything from gigabit Ethernet network connections and telephone or cable television signals to communication between spacecraft can require high bandwidth, high power, large transmit or receive apertures or both, and high receiver sensitivity. Optical communication is attractive f...

A multimode model for projective photon-counting measurements

High Accuracy Calibration of Photon-Counting Detectors

We discuss a practical implementation of a photon-counting detector calibration using correlated photon pairs produced by parametric down-conversion. In this calibration scheme, the detection of a first photon triggers the measurement sequence aimed at detection of a second photon by a detector under test (DUT). We also describe measurements of radiant power with a photon-counting detector, whi...

Evaluation of single-photon-counting measurements of excited-state lifetimes.

An extremely short instrumental response function for a single-photon-counting system has been obtained by using a low-jitter photomultiplier tube, fast amplification of the single photoelectron pulse from this photomultiplier, a constant fraction discriminator with a wide bandwidth input, and a stable reference timing signal. This synchronously mode-locked laser system has been shown to be cap...

OPTIMA: A Photon Counting High-Speed Photometer

OPTIMA is a small, versatile high-speed photometer which is primarily intended for time resolved observations of young high energy pulsars at optical wavelengths. The detector system consists of eight fiber fed photon counters based on avalanche photodiodes, a GPS timing receiver, an integrating CCD camera to ensure the correct pointing of the telescope and a computerized control unit. Since Ja...