VIS/SWIR focal plane and detector development at Raytheon: instruments performance data and future developments at Raytheon

Jonathan Getty; Ellie Hadjiyska; David Acton; Sean Harris; Brian Starr; Alan Levy; Justin Wehner; Scott Taylor; Alan Hoffman

doi:10.1117/12.735905

26 September 2007 VIS/SWIR focal plane and detector development at Raytheon: instruments performance data and future developments at Raytheon

Jonathan Getty, Ellie Hadjiyska, David Acton, Sean Harris, Brian Starr, Alan Levy, Justin Wehner, Scott Taylor, Alan Hoffman

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Proceedings Volume 6660, Infrared Systems and Photoelectronic Technology II; 66600C (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.735905
Event: Photonic Devices + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Raytheon has developed SWIR and Visible-SWIR Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) with over one million pixels that meet the demanding requirements of astronomy, night vision, and other low background systems. FPA formats are 1280 × 1024, 1024 × 1024 and 2048 × 2048, with detector elements on 20 μm pitch. This paper describes recent results on SWIR HgCdTe detectors, low-noise Readout Integrated Circuits (ROICs), and FPA imaging. SWIR HgCdTe detectors have been fabricated with cutoff wavelengths of 1.7 and 2.5 μm and have demonstrated high quantum efficiency and flat spectrals, including visible response to 400 nm. We compare InGaAs and HgCdTe detectors, and show HgCdTe passivation improvements which increase carrier lifetime fourfold over existing processes

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Jonathan Getty, Ellie Hadjiyska, David Acton, Sean Harris, Brian Starr, Alan Levy, Justin Wehner, Scott Taylor, and Alan Hoffman "VIS/SWIR focal plane and detector development at Raytheon: instruments performance data and future developments at Raytheon", Proc. SPIE 6660, Infrared Systems and Photoelectronic Technology II, 66600C (26 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.735905

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