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20 September 2020 T2SLS focal planes for compact remote sensing instruments
Sarath Gunapala, David Ting, Sir Rafol, Alexander Soibel, Arezou Khoshakhlagh, Sam Keo, Brian Pepper, Anita Fisher, Cory Hill, Edward Luong, Thomas Pagano, Paul Lucey, Robert Wright, Miguel Nunes, Luke Flynn, Sachidananda Babu, Parminder Ghuman
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Abstract
In this presentation, we will report our recent efforts in achieving high performance in Antimonides type-II superlattice (T2SL) based infrared photodetectors using the barrier infrared detector (BIRD) architecture. The initial BIRD devices (such as the nBn and the XBn) used either InAs absorber grown on InAs substrate, or lattice-matched InAsSb alloy grown on GaSb substrate, with cutoff wavelengths of ~3.2μm and ~4μm, respectively. While these detectors could operate at much higher temperatures than existing MWIR detectors based on InSb, their spectral responses do not cover the full (3 – 5.5μm) MWIR atmospheric transmission window. The T2SL BIRD devices not only covers the full MWIR atmospheric transmission window, but the full LWIR atmospheric transmission window and beyond. The LWIR detectors based on the BIRD architecture has also demonstrated significant operating temperature advantages over those based on traditional p-n junction designs. Two 6U SmalSat missions CIRAS (Cubesat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder) and HyTI (Hyperspectral Thermal Imager) are based on JPL’s T2SL BIRD focal plane arrays (FPAs). Based on III-V compound semiconductors, the BIRD FPAs offer a breakthrough solution for the realization of low cost (high yield), high-performance FPAs with excellent uniformity and pixel-to-pixel operability.
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Sarath Gunapala, David Ting, Sir Rafol, Alexander Soibel, Arezou Khoshakhlagh, Sam Keo, Brian Pepper, Anita Fisher, Cory Hill, Edward Luong, Thomas Pagano, Paul Lucey, Robert Wright, Miguel Nunes, Luke Flynn, Sachidananda Babu, and Parminder Ghuman "T2SLS focal planes for compact remote sensing instruments", Proc. SPIE 11530, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXIV, 115300G (20 September 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2566859
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KEYWORDS
Long wavelength infrared

Mid-IR

Remote sensing

Thermography

Infrared radiation

Infrared imaging

Sensors

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