[Laser] EME Experiment

[Tim Toast]

Sounds like all good advice Dave. 
And about the receivers, you are absolutely right... it's not the Sensitivity it's the  Selectivity. Ordinary photodiodes have a huge spectral bandwidth when compared to most RF devices. 


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>As for the receiver, I don't think sensitivity is the problem.
>Photomultiplier tubes approach the level of being able to detect single
>photons (e.g., 931A).  The problem, though, is that you're not trying
>to detect a single photon.  You're trying to detect a single photon from
>within a stream of billions upon billions of solar photons.  So, it's
>not necessarily a matter of increasing the receiver sensitivity, but
>rather increasing the receiver selectivity.
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