Calibration of single-photon cameras using radioluminescent light sources

2025/11/19 by Machulka, Radek, Michálek, Václav, Haderka, Ondřej +1
Chemical Engineering · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies #Analytical Chemistry and Sensors #FOS: Physical sciences #Ocular and Laser Science Research #Optics (physics.optics) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.15302

openalex publication_date 2025/11/19 · openalex created_date 2025/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this paper, we address the calibration of the quantum efficiency of single-photon cameras using radioluminescent light sources. The proposed methods are subsequently compared with absolute calibration techniques based on the detection of correlated photon pairs. Furthermore, we propose a method for transferring absolute calibration using the aforementioned radioluminescent emitters.

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