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- noun physics The
detection of individualphotons using aphotodetector
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Two possibilities are photodetection or thermodetection.
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011
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His doctoral research focused on investigation of new scintillator and photodetection technologies for use in medical imaging, particularly positron emission tomography.
unknown title 2011
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CIP Technologies, a company with a long history of photonics innovation, has released a combined modulation and photodetection transducer capable of working at up to 60 GHz - a world first.
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The photodetection capability provides 1.0 A/W responsivity and 43GHz bandwidth.
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A novel combination of discharge flow methods, pulsed laser photochemistry and sensitive photodetection techniques will be used to study these processes to temperatures as low as 50 K in supersonic flows via the
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The combination of modulation and photodetection in a single device means that up and down links can be duplexed over a single fibre, leading to significant cost reductions and capacity improvements.
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Birchler M, Neri G, Tarli L, Halin C, Viti F, et al. (1999) Infrared photodetection for the in vivo localisation of phage-derived antibodies directed against angiogenic markers.
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"Our customers will now be able to experience these next-generation photodetection devices."
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CIP Technologies has released a combined modulation and photodetection transducer capable of working at up to 60GHz.
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Science, are purely theoretical, but Lloyd says that laboratory experiments have already proven the feasibility of both the light sources and the detectors needed for such a quantum-based photodetection system, so he anticipates that within a year it should be possible to build a laboratory-scale system to demonstrate the new concept.
Signs of the Times 2008
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