Detection of Light
Detection of Light
From the Ultraviolet to the Submillimeter
2nd Edition
George Rieke, University of Arizona
November 2002
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Detection of Light provides a comprehensive overview of the important approaches to photon detection from the ultraviolet to the submillimeter spectral regions. This expanded and fully updated second edition discusses recently introduced types of detector: superconducting tunnel junctions, hot electron bolometer mixers, and fully depleted CCDs. It also includes historically important devices such as photographic plates. Material from many disciplines is combined into a comprehensive and unified treatment of the detection of light, with emphasis on the underlying physical principles.
- A unified, broad discussion of approaches to photon detection
- Uses simple physical tools to explain advanced detector concepts
- An ideal bridge between undergraduate physics and specialised literature
Reviews & endorsements
"This book could serve as a supplementary text in graduate spectroscopy course. Each chapter is provided with problems." Applied Spectroscopy
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Intrinsic photoconductors
- 3. Extrinsic photoconductors
- 4. Photodiodes
- 5. Amplifiers and readouts
- 6. Arrays
- 7. Photoemissive detectors
- 8. Photography
- 9. Bolometers
- 10. Visible and infrared coherent receivers
- 11. Submillimeter- and millimeter-wave heterodyne receivers
- 12. Summary
- References
- Appendices.
