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In 2011 SELEX Galileo will be offering a new generation of electronics to interface to our range of detectors and provide digitised output data, suitable for integration into a camera system or for laboratory use.  These electronics will be available for integration with our Hawk Medium and Long waveband detectors in Quarter 1 2011. Thereafter we will be expanding the range to cover all of our 2D MCT Focal Plane Array detectors.
Targeted at low power, small footprint applications, they offer simple interfaces which enable software control of both detector and board functionality, digitisation to 14 bits, support all detector operating modes and camera link protocol.
 
Features:

• Serial control interface
• Power consumption less than 2 Watts
• LVDS data output (Channel link interface)
• Current limit protection built in
• Clocks detectors up to 20 MHz
• Operable from a single 12 Volt supply
• Same environmental specification as the detector
• Constructed to IPC-A-610 class III

 

The interface electronics boards consist of a set of three boards and act as an interface between the detector and the customer?s Non Uniform Correction video processing engine:
 

1. The Main Detector Interface Module (MDIM) including Detector Interface Board provides the interface to the detectors
2. An optional power supply module (PSU_DIM) allows the boards to be operated from a single 12 volt supply
3. An optional evaluation board (EVAL_DIM) will allow the serial LVDS data to be configured for a Camera Link output, to allow a simple interface to a frame grabber

 
The board sets have been designed to be rugged and to operate over the same environmental profile as the detectors.
 
For further information please contact: infrared.sales@selexgalileo.com
 
 
 

SELEX Galileo has developed and demonstrated a number of Long, Medium and Dual Waveband Infrared detectors (DWIR) for high performance thermal imaging with half and full TV formats.

640 x 512 Detectors: 
Condor III is a DWIR detector and is based on our world leading Mercury cadmium Telluride (MCT) processes and established ROIC design.
Each of the 640 x 512 pixels in the array has a dual band response and can be switched between medium and long waveband sensitivity mode by changing the bias voltage on the device, ensuring spatial coherence between the two bands.  
By integrating the photocurrent from each band in separate storage cells at the pixel, both bands can be captured and output within a single frame period optimising the temporal coherence between bands.

The entire storage capacity for each pixel can also be dedicated to the Medium or Long waveband, giving user selectable and interchangeable high performance operation.
The combination of both the Medium and Long wavebands provides exceptional Detection, Recognition and Identification over previous technology generations.  All our full TV detectors are offered as an integrated detector cooler assembly (IDCA), with either a rotary or linear split cycle Stirling cooling engine.  Other full TV 20 µm detectors are the Medium waveband M20 and Long waveband L20.

384 x 288 Detectors:
Osprey-C is a long established Medium waveband and Long waveband half TV detector, designed to be small and lightweight.
It has been supplied with either a compact rotary cooling engine or with a Joule-Thomson cooler, and is compatible with a linear split cycle cooling engine.
The readout integrated circuit (ROIC) has recently been enhanced to give added functionality, including windowing and variable gain known as Osprey-S, available in Medium and  Long waveband variants.
 
For further information please contact: infrared.sales@selexgalileo.com
 
 
 

SELEX Galileo demonstrated the Long Wave Merlin 2D Infrared Detector at SPIE's Defence, Security and Sensing Conference last month.  Merlin LW is a high definition 1024 x 768 infrared detector manufactured from MCT grown by MOVPE.  This detector augments SELEX Galileo's current line-up of 16 µm pixel pitch single band infrared detectors.
The compact 16 µm pitch provides the most cost effective solution for full TV and high resolution imaging in either medium wave or long wave infrared.  Each waveband is available in a choice of two array sizes; Hawk 640 x 512, and Merlin 1024 x 768.  The medium wave 16 µm pixel achieves an NETD of 17 mK and the long wave 32 mK.
Hawk detectors offer full TV resolution in a compact affordable package.  The small array size of Hawk helps to drive down the cost and weight of the entire camera system.
Merlin detectors offer high definition imagery in a package size traditionally associated with full TV resolutions.
The fine pixel pitch is the key to providing industry leading performance.  The 16 µm pixel provides 1024 x 768 HD performance in the size of a 24 µm full TV array, giving 2.5x more pixels on target when used in the same optical system.
 
For further information please contact: infrared.sales@selexgalileo.com