Quantum-Efficient Systematics-Free Photon-Counting Optical Imaging System forLong Baseline Interferometric Imaging of Faint Deep Space Objects

摘要

We have developed a four state Proxitronic image intensifier with system digitalvideo readout for use as a high detective quantum efficiency photon-counting imaging detector optimized for long baseline speckle interferometric imaging of deep space objects. Accurate noise bias calibration requires low geometric distortion image intensifiers as well as linear video readout to yield a stable, calibratable photon point spread function. The image intensifier optimization is not limited to video raster systems but is intended to produce techniques for implementation of a fast phosphor (X-3 response) image intensifier first-stage