Authors: Gustavo Indalecio Cancelo Juan Cruz Estrada Guillermo Fernandez Moroni Ken Treptow Ted Zmuda H Thomas Diehl
Publish Date: 2012/04/11
Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-29
Abstract
Scientific CCDs designed in thick high resistivity silicon Si are excellent detectors for astronomy high energy and nuclear physics and instrumentation Many applications can benefit from CCDs ultra low noise readout systems The present work shows how sub electron noise CCD images can be achieved using digital signal processing techniques These techniques allow 04 electrons of noise at readout bandwidths of up to 10 Kpixels per second while keeping the full CCD spatial resolution and signal dynamic rangeWe want to thank the Fermilab staff at SiDet facility in particular Kevin Kuk Donna Kubik Walter Stuermer who helped us with the operations of CCDs systems and Stephen Holland from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for always being available to answer our CCD questions
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