PLUTO HSS CCD

[Michael Hoffberg]

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What sort of data acquisition system has been designed to capture the data from
this CCD?

At 100 ns / pixel with 4 outputs, you are generating pixels at a rate of about
40 Mpixels/second.  I assume that the data is digitized from 12 to 16 bits,
which means that the data rate is 80 Mbytes/second.

MIKE

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Four your information . . . 

Find below specfications for a new High Speed Scientific 1024(H) x 2048 (V)
CCD that Pixel Vision and SITe has recently developed on Sandbox (current
performance given). The primary focus has been to achieve 30 frames/sec split
frame transfer operation in conjunction with backside illumination (1
micro-sec line transfer time is the goal). This work will be discussed in an
upcoming San Jose SPIE paper. Improvements on performance parameters will
come from future Sandbox runs (e.g., anti-blooming, reducing clock levels,
MPP, improved MTF and noise). The Pluto CCD has been recently coated by Mike
Lessor for QE improvement. 

I'm curious. . . are astronomers yet observing vertical speed problems (ie.
full well reduction) for backside devices? This is a new area of development
as thinned devices are clocked at faster rates.

Jim Janesick


                             PLUTO - 12 HSS CCD SPECIFICATIONS (NOV 1997)
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