MacCannell, John

LOWCAL Ground Receiver: PMT Dark Current Measurement

This paper is part of a series of papers for a research project at New Mexico State University. The project is referred to as LOWCAL or Lightweight Optical Wavelength Communications without A Laser in space. While some of the material presented is specific to tile LOWCAL project, the general procedure for measuring the dark current of a photomultiplier tube is presented.