Noise performance of microchannel plate imaging systems

Kent George McCammon; Karla G. Hagans; Allen K. Hankla

doi:10.1117/12.23381

1 January 1991 Noise performance of microchannel plate imaging systems

Kent George McCammon, Karla G. Hagans, Allen K. Hankla

Proceedings Volume 1346, Ultrahigh- and High-Speed Photography, Videography, Photonics, and Velocimetry '90; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.23381
Event: 34th Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1990, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We present a characterization of the significant noise mechanisms in a microchannel image intensifier and CCD image recording system intended for applications in ultrafast imaging systems used at LLNL for nuclear science. The system under study consists of a generation two image intensifier a relay lens and a cooled CCD imaging array of 640 by 1024 pixels. Fixed pattern noise is significantly reduced by flat fielding techniques. The remaining major noise mechanisms are the intensifier shot noise and a noise factor that characterizes the non-idealness of the system. Results are given for the intensifier noise factor'' s functional dependence on input irradiance levels gain settings and accelerating voltages.

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Kent George McCammon, Karla G. Hagans, and Allen K. Hankla "Noise performance of microchannel plate imaging systems", Proc. SPIE 1346, Ultrahigh- and High-Speed Photography, Videography, Photonics, and Velocimetry '90, (1 January 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.23381

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