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Detection of Low-Level Optical Signals

Photodetectors, Focal Plane Arrays and Systems

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. M. A. Trishenkov

    1. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian State Scientific and Production Center “Orion”, Moscow, Russia

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Part of the book series: Solid-State Science and Technology Library (SSST, volume 4)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Photodetecting Assembly as Detection System for Weak Optical Signals

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 1-65

  3. Signal and Noise in Photodetecting Assemblies

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 66-166

  4. Foundations of Theory of Optimal Filtering as Applied to Photodetecting Assemblies

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 167-226

  5. Optimal Filtering of Photo Signals (Time-Domain Analysis)

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 227-256

  6. Signal Processing in Real Photodetecting Assemblies

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 257-304

  7. Detection of Weak Optical Signals with Photodetecting Assemblies Based on Avalanche Photodiodes

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 305-356

  8. Detection and Processing of Optical Signals in Matrices

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 357-416

  9. Detection of Weak Optical Signals in Special-Purpose Optoelectronic Systems

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 417-451

  10. Conclusion

    • M. A. Trishenkov
    Pages 452-452

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 453-458
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This book is addressed to designers of photodetectors and photodetecting systems, designers of focal plane arrays, charge-coupled devices, specialists in IR technologies, designers of optoelectronic detecting, guiding and tracking systems, systems for IR direction finders, lidars, lightwave communication systems, IR imagers. All these specialists are united by one common purpose: they are all striving to catch the weakest possible optical signal. The most important characteristic of photosensitive devices is their detectivity, which determines the lowest level of optical signal they are able to detect above the noise level. These threshold characteristics define the most important tactical and technical parameters of the entire optoelectronic system, such as its range, resolution, precision. The threshold characteristics of optoelectronic system depend on many of its components; all designers agree, however, that the critically responsible part of the system is the photodetector [1]. By the end of the 1960s the physicists and the engineers were able to overcome many obstacles and to create photodetectors (at least single-element or few-element ones) which covered all the main optical bands (0. 4 . . . 2,2 . . . 3, 3 . . . 5,8 . . . 14 J. . Lm), carried out the detection almost without any loss (the quantum yield being as high as 0. 7 . . . 0. 9), and reduced the noise level to the lowest possible limit.

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  • Institute of Applied Physics, Russian State Scientific and Production Center “Orion”, Moscow, Russia

    M. A. Trishenkov

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