Deep sub electron noise readout in CCD systems using digital filtering techniques

2011/07/05 by Gustavo Cancelo, Juan Estrada, Cancelo, Gustavo +12
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies #CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors #FOS: Physical sciences #Infrared Target Detection Methodologies #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1107.0925

13 pages, 16 figures

arxiv created 2011/07/05 · openalex publication_date 2011/07/05 · arxiv updated 2011/07/06 · openalex created_date 2023/04/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

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 readout bandwidths of up to 10 K pixels per second and keep the full CCD spatial resolution and signal dynamic range.

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