Development of high-speed, low-noise NIR HgCdTe avalanche photodiode arrays for adaptive optics and interferometry

Gert Finger; Ian Baker; Reinhold Dorn; Siegfried Eschbaumer; Derek Ives; Leander Mehrgan; Manfred Meyer; Jörg Stegmeier

doi:10.1117/12.857316

19 July 2010 Development of high-speed, low-noise NIR HgCdTe avalanche photodiode arrays for adaptive optics and interferometry

Gert Finger, Ian Baker, Reinhold Dorn, Siegfried Eschbaumer, Derek Ives, Leander Mehrgan, Manfred Meyer, Jörg Stegmeier

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Proceedings Volume 7742, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IV; 77421K (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857316
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The most promising way to overcome the CMOS noise barrier of infrared AO sensors is the amplification of the photoelectron signal directly at the point of absorption inside the infrared pixel by means of the avalanche gain. HgCdTe eAPD arrays with cut off wavelengths of λ_c ~2.64 μm produced by SELEX-Galileo have been evaluated at ESO. The arrays were hybridized to an existing non-optimized ROIC developed for laser gated imaging which has a format of 320×256 pixels and four parallel video outputs. The avalanche gain makes it possible to reduce the read noise to < 7 e rms. The dark current requirements of IR wavefront sensing are also met.

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Gert Finger, Ian Baker, Reinhold Dorn, Siegfried Eschbaumer, Derek Ives, Leander Mehrgan, Manfred Meyer, and Jörg Stegmeier "Development of high-speed, low-noise NIR HgCdTe avalanche photodiode arrays for adaptive optics and interferometry", Proc. SPIE 7742, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IV, 77421K (19 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857316

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