Diffraction and photometric limits in today's miniature digital camera systems
Brückner A, Schöberl M (2013)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2013
Conference Proceedings Title: Proc. SPIE 8616
Event location: San Francisco
URI: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1668298
DOI: 10.1117/12.2003819
Abstract
Image sensors for digital cameras are built with ever decreasing pixel sizes. The size of the pixels seems to be limited by technology only. However, there are also hard theoretical limits for classical miniature camera systems: During a certain exposure time only a certain number of photons will reach the sensor. The resulting shot noise thus limits the signal-to-noise ratio. On the other hand, diffraction sets another limit for image resolution in case that there is enough brightness in the scene. In this work we show that current sensors are already surprisingly close to these limits.
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APA:
Brückner, A., & Schöberl, M. (2013). Diffraction and photometric limits in today's miniature digital camera systems. In Proc. SPIE 8616. San Francisco, US.
MLA:
Brückner, A., and Michael Schöberl. "Diffraction and photometric limits in today's miniature digital camera systems." Proceedings of the SPIE Photonics West - MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XII, San Francisco 2013.
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