Re:Depth of Field
by passivate on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:41PM
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There is read noise from downstream electronics converting photons to electrons, but the "shot noise" is a property of the photon stream and will be present regardless of how much we improve the electronics. Cooling the detector won't help there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_noise#Optics