Digital techniques for noise reduction in CCD detectors

Authors

  • Piotr Obroślak ISE, Warsaw University of Technology
  • Grzegorz Kasprowicz ISE, Warsaw University of Technology
  • Ryszard S. Romaniuk ISE, Warsaw Univ. Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v2i3.133

Abstract

Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been recently commonly used in many advanced scientific and industrial research projects. They became especially popular in astronomy observations like the "Pi of the Sky" experiment. This paper describes the hardware being developed for the needs of this experiment to allow applying certain digital readout and noise reduction techniques developed for ultra-sensitive CCD detectors.

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Author Biographies

Piotr Obroślak, ISE, Warsaw University of Technology

WEiTI PW M.Sc.student

Grzegorz Kasprowicz, ISE, Warsaw University of Technology

Ph.D. student at WEiTI PW

Ryszard S. Romaniuk, ISE, Warsaw Univ. Technology

University Professor; Editor-in-Chief Ph.Let.PL;  Ed.Adv.Bd. Photonics Spectra; Research Director of ISE, FE&IT, WUT; Research Secretary, Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications, Polish Academy of Sciences; President D.D.Eisenhower Fellow; SPIE Fellow; Member: IEEE, OSA, EOS, Jury - The Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, Polish Physical Society, Assoc.Pol.El.Eng., Photonics Society of Poland.

 

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2010-10-01

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P. Obroślak, G. Kasprowicz, and R. S. Romaniuk, “Digital techniques for noise reduction in CCD detectors”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 2, no. 3, pp. pp. 134–136, Oct. 2010.

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