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Course: Light Detection
Department/Abbreviation: SLO/DS
Year: 2019
Guarantee: 'doc. RNDr. Ondřej Haderka, Ph.D.'
Annotation: The subject treats physical fundamentals of detection of light and describes construction and operation of both common and specialized detection devices.
Course review:
- Basics of radiometry and photometry
- Internal and external photoelectric phenomenon, general properties of detectors of light, quantum efficiency, noise bandwidth
- PIN photodiodes and avalanche diodes, regimes of operation, fast PIN detectors, homodyne detector
- Photomultipliers, avalanche photodiodes, detection of individual photons
- Scientific CCD cameras, intensified CCD cameras and EMCCD cameras
- Special detectors of photons for quantum optics