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Opt Express
; 15(9): 5439-44, 2007 Apr 30.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19532798
ABSTRACT
We have developed a simple detection scheme that uses an 8-bit CMOS camera and spans over 60-dB dynamic range. By use of noise reduction techniques, the 8-bit CMOS camera yields a 40-dB dynamic-range signal, which is further increased by 20 dB by making a replica of the signal beam on another part of the detector chip. We have experimentally validated this scheme in a scanning and a single-shot autocorrelator.