Beads in May

some notes from AQLM

Friday, May 05, 2006

How many photons?

At AQLM, we pledge to publish all measurements in photons. For a CCD detector:

Number of electrons = [full well capacity/(max greyscale-offset)]*(greyscale value-offset)

Number of photons = Number of electrons * (%QE/100)

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