Single Photon Counting Pileup Corrections for Time-Varying Light Sources
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 41 (3), 407-408
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1684528
Abstract
Data obtained in a single photon counting experiment used to observe weak decaying light sources, for instance in lifetime measurements, are distorted at high count rates. It is shown that the data can be corrected either theoretically or by an experimental modification.Keywords
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