Products & Applications

Defence applications

MARS SW 320x256

The Sofradir staring snapshot 320 x 256 Short Wave (SW) Infrared Focal Plane Assemblies (IRFPA) are offered to answer the military and commercial systems requirement of 0.8 µm to 2.5µm detection for 2D spectrometry and hyperspectral imagery.

These IRFPAs take advantage of the Sofradir optimized high performance, stable, low defect density Photo-Voltaic HgCdTe technology for staring arrays, which offers unique high performance detection far beyond 1.7 µm.

Hybridized on a Sofradir CMOS Read-Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC), these IRFPAs are offered in a compact four stage Thermo Electrically Cooled (TEC) configuration.

Standard configurations

- 2.5µm IRFPA at 200 K

Data sheet (pdf)

Array Features

Pixel pitch		30 µm x 30 µm

Material spectral response		0.8 µm – 2.5 µm

Detector spectral response		0.8 µm – 2.5 µm

FPA Operating Temperature		200K range

ROIC Features

Selection:

Parallel or serial electrical interface

Modes:

Snap shot operation, CTIA input circuit, Integrate-While-Read mode, programmable integration time (>3µs), anti-blooming

Max charge handling capacity :

1.3 x 10⁶ e^- (for 100% well fill)

Readout noise :

250 e^-

Number of output : 4

Pixel output rate : up to 3 MHz per output

Frame rate : up to 150 Hz