Experimental and theoretical characterization of noise in a streak camera

Aurelia Secroun; Alain Mens; Dominique Gontier; Pascal Brunel; Jean-Claude Rebuffie; Catherine Goulmy

doi:10.1117/12.328561

29 October 1998 Experimental and theoretical characterization of noise in a streak camera

Aurelia Secroun, Alain Mens, Dominique Gontier, Pascal Brunel, Jean-Claude Rebuffie, Catherine Goulmy

Proceedings Volume 3429, Current Developments in Optical Design and Engineering VII; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.328561
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In an effort to improve the performances of streak cameras, experimental and theoretical studies were conducted, aimed at measuring the noise in a camera. This would be achieved through the evaluation of the camera's noise factor and by additionally pointing out the possible sources of noise. It was shown for our camera, a TSN 506 Thomson camera, that the noise factor is due partly to signal loss (factor 1,8) and partly to noise addition (factor 2,6). Moreover, noise was shown to be additive and Poissonian, mostly due to shot noise and photoelectric conversions.

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Aurelia Secroun, Alain Mens, Dominique Gontier, Pascal Brunel, Jean-Claude Rebuffie, and Catherine Goulmy "Experimental and theoretical characterization of noise in a streak camera", Proc. SPIE 3429, Current Developments in Optical Design and Engineering VII, (29 October 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.328561

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