Electronic shutter for frame-transfer EMCCD using anti-blooming channel to bleed off charges

Zhang Mengjiao; Cai Yi; Ye Liang; Chen Yuanjin; Xu Chunye; Wang Lingxue

doi:10.3788/irla201847.0620001

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