Article | REF: E4060 V2

Infrared focal plane arrays

Authors: Isabelle RIBET, Marcel CAES, Sophie DERELLE, Sylvie BERNHARDT, Julien JAECK

Publication date: February 10, 2021, Review date: April 12, 2021

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8. Glossary

Circuit de Détection (CD) ; detection circuit

Infrared matrix detector brick absorbing incident radiation and generating an electrical signal.

Circuit de Lecture (CL); Read-Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC)

Integrated circuit for reshaping the electrical signal generated by the detection circuit to obtain a video signal.

quantum efficiency; Quantum Efficiency (QE)

Efficiency with which a quantum detector converts photons into electrons.

Noise Equivalent Temperature Difference (NETD)

Merit function quantifying the thermal sensitivity of a camera (and, by extension, of an infrared detector); it is the blackbody temperature variation generating a signal variation equal to the temporal noise.

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