CCD |
Charge Coupled Device | LIR |
Laboratoire infrarouge |
CEA |
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique | LWIR |
Long Wave Infrared (8-12 µm) |
CMOS |
Complementary Metal-Oxyde- Semiconductor technology |
MBE |
Molecular Beam Epitaxy |
DDA |
Detector Dewar Assembly | MCT |
Mercury Cadminum Telluride (Cd[x] Hg[1-x] Te compound) |
DEFIR |
Defining the Future in Infrared (a joint lab with LETI/LIR) |
MCT |
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ESA |
European Space Agency | MICA |
(Missile d'Interception et de Combat Aérien)Air-Air Missile |
FLIR |
Forward Looking Infrared | MWIR |
Medium Wave Infrared (3-5 µm) |
FPA |
Focal Plane Array | QWIP |
Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors |
IDDCA |
Integrated Dewar Cooler Assembly | ROIC |
Read-Out Integrated Circuit |
IR |
Infrared | SWIR |
Short Wave Infrared (1-3 µm) |
IRST |
Infrared Search and Track | TE |
Thermo-Electric (cooler) |
JT |
Joule Thomson (cooler) |
