The low light level TV-device based on EMCCD
Discusses the principles of work, specific features and capabilities of TV-devices using electron multiplying CCD imagers (EMCCD). It is shown that the using of internal electron multiplication raise signal to noise ratio on CCD detector output and approach sensitivity limit caused by photon noise. Describes the low-level TV-device using the EMCCD image detector - CCD97. Describes the features of the design and shown the images obtained with illuminance is of the order of 10-3 lx. The blackbody model with controlled temperature and band-pass filter is used as a light source. It is concluded that application of internal electron multiplication is effective to increase the sensitivity of TV-device at illuminance is 10-3 - 10-1 lx.