Rocket-borne instrument with a high-resolution microchannel plate detector for planetary UV spectroscopy
Applied Optics, Vol. 21, Issue 17, pp. 3071-3079 (1982)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.21.003071
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Abstract
A telescope-spectrograph employing a photon-counting microchannel plate (MCP)-CODACON detector has been built, tested, and flown on a sounding rocket. The detector uses a curved-channel MCP proximity focused onto a coded anode array of 1024 channels spaced 25.4-mm center to center. High quantum efficiency is obtained by depositing a cesium iodide photocathode on the front surface of the MCP. The instrument has obtained an ultraviolet (1500–1800-Å) spectrum of Jupiter with a spectral resolution of 8 Å, which is higher than that of any previously reported observation in this wavelength range.
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Citation
William E. McClintock, Charles A. Barth, Robert E. Steele, George M. Lawrence, and J. Gethyn Timothy, "Rocket-borne instrument with a high-resolution microchannel plate detector for planetary UV spectroscopy," Appl. Opt. 21, 3071-3079 (1982)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-21-17-3071
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