Conventional near - infrared semiconductor detector systems are limited by low sensitivity and high error rates and can not
count numbers of photons.
Physicists realize things are out of kilter because they can literally
count the number of photons — particles of energy — in the universe today and compare that with the total number of matter particles.
One way to measure how an object's brightness changes is to
count the number of photons it emits over time.
Not exact matches
The detector enables imaging in so - called single
photon counting regime allowing acquiring radiographs with theoretically unlimited dynamic range (in practice limited just by the
number of detected
photons).
The camera
counts the
number of light particles, or
photons, that reach it every 56 picoseconds, or trillionths
of a second.
Count the
number of IR
photons in the jar.
You have to look at the absorption crosssection per molecule
of CO2 and
count up the
number of CO2 molecules per unit area that would be in the path
of a
photon travelling a certain distance in the atmosphere you can understand how such a low concentration
of CO2 can have such a large effect.