2006/12/01 by J.-M. Bidault, J-M. Bidault, Bidault, J-M. +16
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0612014
Presented at the International Conference Imaging-2006, Stockholm, June 2006
arxiv created 2006/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2006/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We have demonstrated experimentally that recently developed gaseous detectors combined with solid or gaseous photo-cathodes have exceptionally low noise and high quantum efficiency for UV photons while being solar blind. For this reason they can be used for the detection of weak UV sources in daylight conditions. These detectors are extremely robust, can operate in poor gas conditions and are cheap. We present the first results of their applications to hyper-spectroscopy and flame detection in daylight conditions.