Senseeker Offers Low-Noise Neon
July 6, 2023 | Santa Barbara, CA
Senseeker Engineering, a leading innovator of digital
infrared image sensing technology, has announced the availability of the
Neon
The Neon
DROIC was developed for low-light applications such as short-wave Infrared
(SWIR) and low-current detector technologies such as quantum dot-based
detectors. It has been designed for use in high-operating temperature
conditions.
"The low-noise and high-sensitivity of Senseeker's Neon
family of digital readouts enable extremely high-performance infrared imaging
in the next generation of SWIR cameras," said Dr. Martin H. Ettenberg, President
and CEO at Princeton Infrared Technologies. "This new level of performance will
allow Princeton Infrared Technologies to continue to offer high performance SWIR
cameras and imagers across the Industrial, Scientific and Defense
markets."
The Neon RD0033, with 640 x 512 format and a frame rate of 700
fps, has triple-gain modes with programmable well capacities of 22 ke-, 160 ke-
and 1.1 Me-. The chip boasts very low read noise of 15 electrons at room
temperature in high-gain. The RD0033 is a global shutter chip with both internal
synchronous integration control modes and external asynchronous integration
control and can be used for range-gating applications. It contains both on-chip
and off-chip correlated double sampling modes that operate in both
integrate-then-read and integrate-while-read modes. The RD0033 also features
typical Senseeker product modes such as sample-up-the-ramp, on-chip temperature
monitoring and programmable multiple high-speed windows to observe and track
targets at thousands of frames per second. "The Neon RD0033 CTIA DROIC is the
first in a family of Senseeker chips that provides an attractive, flexible and
low-noise solution for a wide range of applications," said Kenton Veeder,
President of Senseeker. "We have worked hard to ensure customers will be happy
with the ease of use and high-end performance this off-the-shelf DROIC will
bring to their applications."
The Neon RD0033 is in production now and is supported by an electronics kit and a thermoelectric cooler sensor test unit that, together, enable testing and evaluation of Neon-based focal plane arrays.
About Senseeker Engineering
Senseeker is a US owned transducer IC and cryogenic test solutions company that specializes in the design of state-of-the-art digital imaging sensors, cryogenic test equipment, electronics and software. Senseeker's products and IP enable FPA developers to produce world class infrared image sensing solutions. Read more at https://www.senseeker.com.
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