A Staring Monolithic FPA With High-Speed Readout And Frame Averaging

C. Paik; L. Vasel; D. Pocock; D. Stankovich; S. K. Kim; R. H. Tinkler

doi:10.1117/12.944266

3 May 1988 A Staring Monolithic FPA With High-Speed Readout And Frame Averaging

C. Paik, L. Vasel, D. Pocock, D. Stankovich, S. K. Kim, R. H. Tinkler

Proceedings Volume 0890, Infrared Systems and Components II; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.944266
Event: 1988 Los Angeles Symposium: O-E/LASE '88, 1988, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Staring infrared Focal Plane Arrays (FPA's) utilizing integrating-mode detectors suffer from insufficient charge storage capacity to stare at a room-temperature scene for standard television frame times. This paper presents a high-speed readout technique, with subsequent frame averaging, that extends the charge storage capacity of monolithic Metal Insulator Semiconductor (MIS) FPA's by a factor of 32. A 128 by 128-element indium antimonide FPA is combined with a silicon row driver and preamplifier/multiplexer chips and packaged in a Common Module Dewar. The FPA assembly can be read at 960 frames/s and up to 32 frames averaged off focal plane for an improved signal-to-noise ratio. This work has been supported by Northrop Corporation's Independent Research and Development (IR&D) funds.

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C. Paik, L. Vasel, D. Pocock, D. Stankovich, S. K. Kim, and R. H. Tinkler "A Staring Monolithic FPA With High-Speed Readout And Frame Averaging", Proc. SPIE 0890, Infrared Systems and Components II, (3 May 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.944266

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