Products & Applications

Defence applications

AQUILA JT 384×288

The Sofradir staring snapshot 384×288 Mid Wave (MW) Infrared Focal Plane Assembly (IRFPA) is offered in a miniature Joule-Thomson cooled dewar to answer the ground-to-ground and air-to-ground short range and medium range missile seeker requirements in the band II (3-5µm) detection.
This IRFPA takes advantage of the Sofradir optimized high performance, stable, low defect density Photo-Voltaic HgCdTe technology for staring arrays.
Hybridized on a Sofradir state of the art CMOS Read-Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC), this IRFPA is offered in a miniature long vacuum-life dewar designed for zero vacuum maintenance and for very short cool down times.

Standard configurations

- Detector Dewar Cooler Assembly (DDCA) with fast cool down Joule-Thomson cooler.

Data sheet (pdf)

Array Features

Pixel pitch		15 µm x 15 µm

Material spectral response		0.8 µm - 5.0 µm

Detector spectral response		3.4 µm - 4.8 µm (cold filter)

FPA Operating Temperature		77K - 100K; nominal 89K with Argon gas

ROIC Features

Selection:

Serial electrical interface

Modes:

Snap shot operation, direct injection input circuit, Integrate While Read mode, programmable integration time, anti-blooming

Max charge handling capacity :

> 3.4 10⁶ e- (for gain 0) or > 2.1 10⁶ e- (for gain 1)

Readout noise :

< 400 e-

Number of output : 1 (analog)

Pixel output rate : up to 16 MHz

Frame rate : up to 140 Hz (384×288), 190 Hz (320×256)