Teal Amber Visible Focal Plane Technology

Charles R. Johnson; Ron Burczewski

doi:10.1117/12.931969

29 December 1981 Teal Amber Visible Focal Plane Technology

Charles R. Johnson, Ron Burczewski

Proceedings Volume 0282, Technical Issues in Focal Plane Development; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.931969
Event: 1981 Technical Symposium East, 1981, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

Deep-space surveillance missions have imposed severe demands on existing technology and simulated the search for new, advanced technology developments to provide higher performance. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored Teal Amber as a visible charge-coupled device (CCD) and associated focal plane signal processing technology development and demonstration program. This paper describes this large-scale, staring-array-sensor concept. The current state of art in the resulting visibled CCD imagers is specified, along with the focal plane signal processor implementation in low power-weight-volume large-scale integrated (LSI) circuitry. Performance requirements and analytic predictions are compared to demonstration system results from an electro-optical test site in White Sands, New Mexico.

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Charles R. Johnson and Ron Burczewski "Teal Amber Visible Focal Plane Technology", Proc. SPIE 0282, Technical Issues in Focal Plane Development, (29 December 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.931969

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