High res. long-wave infrared detector ready to go
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Mar 31, 2005
Sofradir today announced that Venus, a compact higher resolution 1/4 TV format (384 x 288) long-wave infrared detector is in production and ready for shipment.
Sofradir, a developer and manufacturer of infrared detectors for military, space and industrial applications, today announced that Venus, a compact higher resolution 1/4 TV format (384 x 288) long-wave infrared detector is in production and ready for shipment.
Venus is claimed to significantly upgrade the performance of military infrared systems in armoured transport, airborne vehicles and industrial control applications.
It is also said to address defence procurement agency demands for greater reliability in IR detection and represents a lower cost response to system upgrades said Sofradir.
The Venus system features a 25 micrometre pitch, a 330Hz maximum frame rate and claimed low input power consumption.
Venus has already been selected for major European vehicle programmes involving several hundred units, added the company.
Recent breakthroughs in Sofradir's Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) material process have played a significant part in the development of the new product.
The key breakthrough is improved pixel uniformity said the company, which added that to achieve first class IR image quality, pixel response must be the same across the whole surface of the device.
"Venus offers close to 50 per cent more pixels than the 320 x 256.
This brings both improved image resolution and uniformity thus giving users better detection and a greater identification range," said Sofradir's vice president of research and development and technology, Philippe Tribolet.
The company believes that Venus's compact footprint is also crucial.
The unit has been built on the same size chip as the industry standard 320 x 256, which means that Sofradir has succeeded in increasing the resolution of its IR detector without enlarging the size of the chip.
That brings a stronger business case for thermal camera manufacturers to use the new range, added the company.
"Manufacturers can upgrade from 320 x 256 to 384 x 288 IR quality pretty well using existing optics.
This is what makes Venus an affordable upgrade.
The market for cooled IR detectors is reaching maturity and along with it a growing demand from military procurement agencies for greater product reliability and decreasing costs.
With Venus, we have improved the stability and uniformity, and increased the frame rate of the image.
We have lowered power consumption and made it compact to respond to theoe demands head on," added Tribolet.
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