Image Sensors / Focal Plane Arrays

For Ground-Based Astronomy

Teledyne Imaging manufactures sensors for mosaic imaging cameras, spectroscopy, auto-guiding, acquisition, and adaptive optics. Our Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have extensive heritage and a wide variety of formats and customized features. Our CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) offer similar performance to CCDs but can offer higher frame rates and integrated digital functions, including digital data output. Our cooled HgCdTe focal plane arrays with CMOS readout ICs reveal the sky's secrets in the infrared. 

 

Key Benefits, Visible Solutions

  • High quantum efficiency
  • Large format devices
  • Large pixel sizes
  • Integrated focal plane and camera capability
  • Custom detector designs
  • High Quantum Efficiency (QE)
  • Very low noise

Teledyne Imaging manufactures sensors for mosaic imaging cameras, spectroscopy, auto-guiding, acquisition and adaptive optics. The group's CCDs  have extensive heritage and a wide variety of formats and customized features.

CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) offer similar performance to CCDs but can offer higher frame rates and integrated digital functions, including digital data output.

Key Benefits, IR Solutions

  • Bandgap engineered
  • Tuneable wavelength
  • Substrate removed, deep depleted and fully depleted (low dark current) MCT
  • Simultaneous UV, visible, IR light detection
  • Read Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC) design
  • In house HgCdTe growth (4 MBE machines

Teledyne Imaging is a world leader in the design and production of large format IR sensors, producing the largest IR detectors in the world. Key benefits include large format, high-speed, very-low noise, high-dynamic range, background subtraction, special windowing, and on-FPA signal processing

Teledyne’s IR FPAs for ground astronomy very large telescopes are produced using Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Cadmium Mercury Telluride (MCT), or HgCdTe, tuneable wavelength, bandgap engineered substrate.

Teledyne Imaging is involved in multiple ground-based observatory projects, providing both imaging and spectroscopic solutions.

  • Multiple projects in observatories worldwide
  • Numerous ongoing projects for various ground-based applications
  • Imaging and spectroscopic instrumentation solutions
  • Various customizations
  • Close collaboration with the customer to provide the highest performance imagers for their application

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