Latest EEV data

Satoshi Miyazaki satoshi at merope.mtk.nao.ac.jp
Tue Jun 11 04:15:26 CLT 1996


Paddy,

I am impressed with your EEV data. Let me ask several questions 
regarding the data.

1) How much is the amplifier sensitivity in uV/e approximately.
2) How good is the QE uniformity. Is it flat up to the edge?

Thanks

-Satoshi Miyazaki
-National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
-2-21-1 Osawa Mitaka Tokyo 181 Japan.
-It is very humid here in Japan too!

>
>http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~apo/docs/eev-3.html
>
>There's a plot of the QE and today's freshly cooked noise figures. Paul and I 
>consider this is a good enough device, other operating performance 
>characteristics meeting our spec., to be put on the telescope asap. 2-3 months 
>unfortunately due to a lack of a cryostat with the requisite bits for the 
>package profile....
>
>It beats the Teks everwhere in terms of QE, PLUS at 5+5us sampling has an rms 
>noise of 3e - I'm working on that though!
>
>Cheers from humid Britain
>Paddy 
>
>--
>



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