The inventor of the world’s most sensitive camera, Olivier Daigle, will present a talk about “Photon counting with an EMCCD” at SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010, on January 20th.
Abstract
An EMCCD camera , designed from the ground up for extreme faint flux imaging, is presented. CCCP, the CCD Controller for Counting Photons, has been integrated with a CCD97 EMCCD from e2v technologies into a scientific camera. This new camera achieves sub-electron read-out noise and very low Clock Induced Charge (CIC) levels, which is mandatory for extreme faint flux imaging. It has been characterized in laboratory and used on the Observatoire du Mont Mégantic 1.6-m telescope. The performance of the camera is discussed, experimental and scientific data are presented.