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Optically sensitive Medipix2 detector for adaptive optics wavefront sensing
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Vallerga, John
McPhate, Jason
Tremsin, Anton
Siegmund, Oswald
Mikulec, Bettina
Clark, Allan Geoffrey
Published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. A. 2005, vol. 546, no. 1-2, p. 263-269
Abstract A new hybrid optical detector is described that has many of the attributes desired for the next generation adaptive optics (AO) wavefront sensors. The detector consists of a proximity focused microchannel plate (MCP) read out by multi-pixel application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips developed at CERN (“Medipix2”) with individual pixels that amplify, discriminate and count input events. The detector has 256×256 pixels, zero readout noise (photon counting), can be read out at 1 kHz frame rates and is abutable on 3 sides. The Medipix2 readout chips can be electronically shuttered down to a temporal window of a few microseconds with an accuracy of 10 ns. When used in a Shack–Hartmann style wavefront sensor, a detector with 4 Medipix chips should be able to centroid approximately 5000 spots using 7×7 pixel sub-apertures resulting in very linear, off-null error correction terms. The quantum efficiency depends on the optical photocathode chosen for the bandpass of interest.
Keywords Adaptive optics — Wavefront sensors — MCP — Medipix — GaAs photocathodes
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Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire
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(ISO format) 		VALLERGA, John et al. Optically sensitive Medipix2 detector for adaptive optics wavefront sensing. In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. A, 2005, vol. 546, n° 1-2, p. 263-269. doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.03.102 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:38085

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