Scientific detectors for astronomy 2005

Section I. Observatory Status and Plans

1. Invited Talk – Science, Technology and Detectors for Extremely Large Telescopes
Roberto Gilmozzi

2. Overview Paper - Instruments, Detectors and the Future of Astronomy with Large Ground Based Telescopes
Douglas A. Simons, Paola Amico, Dietrich Baade, Sam Barden, Randall D. Campbell, Gert Finger, Kirk Gilmore, Roland Gredel, Paul Hickson, Steve Howell, Norbert Hubin, Andreas Kaufer, Ralf Kohley, Phillip J. MacQueen, Sergej Markelov, Mike Merrill, Satoshi Miyazaki, Hidehiko Nakaya, Darragh O'Donoghue, Tino Oliva, Andrea Richichi, Derrick Salmon, Ricardo Schmidt, Hongjun Su, Simon Tulloch, Maria Luisa García Vargas, R. Mark Wagner, Olivier Wiecha, Binxun Ye

3. Requirements on Array Detectors from OWL Instrument Studies
Sandro D'Odorico

4. Pan-STARRS and Gigapixel Cameras
John L. Tonry, Peter M. Onaka, Barry Burke, Gerard A. Luppino

5. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
D. Kirk Gilmore

6. Optical Detector Systems at the European Southern Observatory
Dietrich Baade

7. The UKIRT Wide Field Camera
Derek Ives

8. System Design of Detector Systems for a Major Chinese Multi-Object Spectroscopic Sky Surveyor
Binxun Ye, Binhua Li

9. Near Diffraction Limited Visible Imaging on 10m class Telescopes with EMCCDs
Craig D. Mackay

10. Nod & Shuffle 3D Spectroscopy
Martin M. Roth, Nicolas Cardiel, Javier Cenarro, Detlef Schönberner, Matthias Steffen

11. Detector Systems for the MODS Spectrograph
Bruce Atwood, Daniel Pappalardo, Mark A. Derwent, Thomas P. O'Brien

12. Recent Photon Counting Developments at the Observatoire de Marseille
Philippe Balard, Philippe Amram, Olivier Boissin, Jacques Boulesteix, Olivier Daigle, Jean-Luc Gach, Olivia Garrido, Olivier Hernandez, Michel Marcelin

13. A CMOS Sensor for Solar Observation
Francis Beigbeder, Sylvain Rondi, Nadège Meunier, Michel Rieutord

14. Plasma Cleaning
Sebastian Deiries, Armin Silber, Olaf Iwert, Evi Hummel, Jean Louis Lizon

15. Thermal Modeling of the Wide-Field Infrared Camera for the CFHT
Philippe Feautrier, Eric Stadler, Pascal Puget

16. Cooling System for the OmegaCAM CCD Mosaic
Jean Louis Lizon, Armin Silber

17. Bonn Shutters for the Largest Mosaic Cameras
Klaus Reif, Günther Klink, Philipp Müller, Henning Poschmann

18. Slicing the Universe - CCDs for MUSE
Roland Reiss, Sebastian Deiries, Jean Louis Lizon, Manfred Meyer, Javier Reyes, Roland Bacon, François Hénault, Magali Loupias

19. On-Chip Guiding with a Mosaic of HAWAII-2RG Infrared Detectors
Martin Riopel, Douglas Teeple, Jeff Ward

20. The Blue Channel of the Large Binocular Camera
Roberto Speziali, Fernando Pedichini, Andrea Paola, Emanuele Giallongo, Roberto Ragazzoni, Andrea Baruffolo, E. Diolaiti, C. Santis, J. Farinato, Adriano Fontana, S. Gallozzi, F. Gasparo, F. Pasian, R. Smareglia, E. Vernet

21. Radiation Damage in HST Detectors
Marco Sirianni, Max Mutchler

22. An EUV Image Detector for the Space Solar Telescope
Qian Song, Binxun Ye, Zhaowang Zhao

23. The Camera of the Corot Space Experiment: Design, Tests and Results

24. Second Generation IR Detectors for the Wide Field Camera 3
Massimo Robberto, Sylvia Baggett, Rebecca Blackmon, Tom Brown, Howard Bushouse, Gregory Delo, Donald Figer, Roger Foltz, George Hartig, Bryan Hilbert, Robert J. Hill, Scott D. Johnson, Randy A. Kimble, John W. Mackenty, Eliot M. Malumuth, Elizabeth Polidan, Sam Reed, Anne Marie Russell, Augustyn Waczynski, Yiting Wen

25. Imaging Technique of the DISR Camera on the Huygens Lander
J. Rainer Kramm, Horst Uwe Keller, Richard Bredthauer, Martin Tomasko

Section II. Non-Astronomical Applications

26. Advanced Detector and Optical Fabrication Technologies for Implementing Improved Spectroscopic Instrumentations
M. Bonner Denton, Andrew K. Knight, Roger P. Sperline

27. CCD Detector Systems for “Semiconductor Nanostructures” Optical Properties Research
David Darson, Pascal Morfin, Martial Nicolas, Guillaume Cassabois, JérÔme Tignon, Ivan Favero, Philippe Pace, Laurent Rea, Philippe Rossignol, Claude Delalande

Section III. CCDs

28. Overview Paper - CCD Technology
Barry Burke, Paul Jorden, Paul Vu

29. Siliconus Maximus
Richard Bredthauer, Michael Lesser

30. CCD Development Progress at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
William F. Kolbe, Steve E. Holland, Christopher J. Bebek

31. Orthogonal Transfer Array
John L. Tonry, Barry Burke, Peter M. Onaka, Gerard A. Luppino

32. A pnCCD Detector System for High Speed Optical Applications
Robert Hartmann, Hubert Gorke, Norbert Meidinger, Heike Soltau, Lothar Strüder

33. L3 CCD Wavefront Sensor Developments at the ING
Simon Tulloch

34. Zero Noise Wavefront Sensor Development within the Opticon European Network
Philippe Feautrier, Thierry Fusco, Mark Downing, Norbert Hubin, Jean-Luc Gach, Philippe Balard, Christian Guillaume, Eric Stadler, Olivier Boissin, Paul Jorden, José Javier Diaz

35. A Dedicated L3Vision CCD for Adaptive Optics Applications
Mark Downing, Norbert Hubin, Markus Kasper, Paul Jorden, Peter Pool, Sandy Denney, Wolfgang Suske, David Burt, Pat Wheeler, Kevin Hadfield, Philippe Feautrier, Jean-Luc Gach, Javier Reyes, Manfred Meyer, Dietrich Baade, Philippe Balard, Christian Guillaume, Eric Stadler, Olivier Boissin, Thierry Fusco, José Javier Diaz

36. The Ultimate CCD for Laser guide star wavefront sensing on Extremely Large Telescopes
James W. Beletic, Sean Adkins, Barry Burke, Robert Reich, Bernie Kosicki, Vyshnavi Suntharalingham, Charlie Bleau, Ray DuVarney, Richard Stover, Jerry Nelson, Francois Rigaut

37. The MMT Megacam
Brian McLeod, John Geary, Mark Ordway, Steven Amato, Maureen Conroy, Thomas Gauron

38. The OmegaCAM 16K×16K CCD Detector System for the ESO VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
Olaf Iwert, Dietrich Baade, Andrea Balestra, Andrea Baruffolo, Alessandro Bortolussi, Fabrice Christen, Claudio Cumani, Sebastian Deiries, Mark Downing, Christoph Geimer, Guy Hess, Joachim Hess, Koen Kuijken, Jean-Louis Lizon, Harald Nicklas, Roland Reiss, Javier Reyes, Armin Silber

39. CCD Mosaics at CTIO and SOAR
Ricardo E. Schmidt

40. Focal Plane Detectors for the Dark Energy Survey
Juan Estrada, Ricardo E. Schmidt

41. Optimised CCD Antireflection Coating
Andrew Kelt, Andrew Harris, Paul Jorden, Simon Tulloch

Section IV. CMOS-Based Sensors

42. Overview Paper - CMOS Detector Technology
Alan Hoffman, Markus Loose, Vyshnavi Suntharalingham

43. Overview of Rockwell Scientific Imaging Technologies
Michael H. MacDougal, Yibin Bai, Markus Loose, James W. Beletic

44. 2K×2K NIR HgCdTe Detector Arrays for VISTA and Other Applications
Peter J. Love, Alan W. Hoffman, Ken J. Ando, Elizabeth Corrales, William D. Ritchie, Neil J. Therrien, Joe P. Rosbeck, Roger S. Holcombe

45. 1024×1024 Si:As IBC Detector Arrays for Mid-IR Astronomy
Alan Hoffman, Peter J. Love, Elizabeth Corrales, Nancy A. Lum

46. The James Webb Space Telescope and its Infrared Detectors
Bernard J. Rauscher, Michael E. Ressler

47. Active Pixel Sensor Developments for Future ESA Space Science Missions
Ludovic Duvet, Didier Martin

48. ENERGY: A Proposal for a Multi-Band CMOS Imaging Photometer
Fernando Pedichini, Andrea Paola, Roberto Speziali

Section V. Avalanche Photodiodes

49. SPADA: An Array of SPAD Detectors for Astrophysical Applications
Giovanni Bonanno, Massimiliano Belluso, Franco Zappa, Simone Tisa, Sergio Cova, Piera Maccagnani, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Roberto Saletti, Roberto Roncella, Sergio Billotta

50. Electro-Optical Characteristics of the Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD)
Massimiliano Belluso, Giovanni Bonanno, Sergio Billotta, Antonio Calì, Salvo Scuderi, Massimo Cataldo Mazzillo, Piergiorgio G. Fallica, Delfo Sanfilippo, Emilio Sciacca, Salvatore Lombardo

51. Characterization of SPAD Arrays: First Results
Massimiliano Belluso, Giovanni Bonanno, Sergio Billotta, Antonio Calì, Salvatore Scuderi, Massimo Cataldo Mazzillo, Piergiorgio G. Fallica, Delfo Sanfilippo, Giovanni Condorelli, Emilio Sciacca, Salvatore Lombardo

Section VI. Detector Testing & Characterization

52. Conversion Gain and Interpixel Capacitance of CMOS Hybrid Focal Plane Arrays
Gert Finger, James W. Beletic, Reinhold J. Dorn, Manfred Meyer, Leander H. Mehrgan, Alan F. M. Moorwood, Joerg Stegmeier

53. MBE MCT Arrays for JWST
Donald N. B. Hall

54. Performance Overview of the VISTA IR Detectors
Nagaraja Bezawada, Derek Ives

55. The Effects of Charge Persistence in Aladdin III InSb Detectors on Scientific Observations
Randall D. Campbell, David J. Thompson

56. An Ultra Low Photon Background 1 to 5 Micron Detector Mosaic Test Facility
Reinhold J. Dorn, Siegfried Eschbaumer, Gert Finger, Jean-Paul Kirchbauer, Leander H. Mehrgan, Manfred Meyer, Armin Silber, Joerg Stegmeier

57. On Sky Experience with the HAWAII-I Detector at the Camera/Spectrograph LIRIS
José A. Acosta-Pulido, Rafael Barrena Delgado, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Arturo Manchado-Torres

58. EMIR Detector Characterization
José Javier Díaz, Fernando Gago, Carlos González-Fernández, Francis Beigbeder, Francisco Garzón, Jesús Patrón

59. Intra-pixel Response of a HAWAII-1RG Multiplexer
Tim Hardy, Marc R. Baril, James S. Stilburn

60. Fast Conversion Factor (Gain) Measurement of a CCD Using Images With Vertical Gradient
Fabrice Christen, Konrad Kuijken, Dietrich Baade, Cyril Cavadore, Sebastian Deiries, Olaf Iwert

61. CCD Charge Transfer Efficiency (CTE) Derived from Signal Variance in Flat Field Images
Fabrice Christen, Konrad Kuijken, Dietrich Baade, Cyril Cavadore, Sebastian Deiries, Olaf Iwert

62. DC Characterization of CCD-Based Detectors for Use in Space-Based Applications
Robert Philbrick, Morley Blouke

63. Detector Testing Methodologies for Large Focal Planes
Peter Moore, Gustavo Rahmer

64. Calibration of Flight Model CCDs for the Corot mission
Vincent Lapeyrere, Pernelle Bernardi, Jean Tristan Buey

Section VII. Electronics

65. NGC Detector Array Controller Based on High Speed Serial Link Technology
Manfred Meyer, Dietrich Baade, Andrea Balestra, Claudio Cumani, Sebastian Deiries, Christoph Geimer, Reinhold J. Dorn, Siegfried Eschbaumer, Gert Finger, Leander H. Mehrgan, Alan Moorwood, Roland Reiss, Javier Reyes, Joerg Stegmeier

66. NGC Front-end for CCDs and AO Applications
Javier Reyes, Mark Downing, Leander H. Mehrgan, Manfred Meyer, Ralf Conzelman

67. Software for the ESO New General Detector Controller
Claudio Cumani, Andrea Balestra, Joerg Stegmeier

68. Keeping Control: PULPO 2
Christoph Geimer, Claudio Cumani, Nicolas Haddad, Javier Reyes, Javier Valenzuela, Bernhard Lopez

69. We Must be MAD- Pushing FIERA to its Limits
Roland Reiss, Andrea Balestra, Claudio Cumani, Christoph Geimer, Javier Reyes, Enrico Marchetti, Joana Santos

70. 256 Channel Data Acquisition System for VISTA Focal Plane to Readout Sixteen 2K×K Raytheon VIRGO Detectors
Leander H. Mehrgan, Nagaraja Bezawada, Reinhold J. Dorn, Siegfried Eschbaumer, Gert Finger, Manfred Meyer, Joerg Stegmeier, Guy Woodhouse

71. MONSOON Image Acquisition System Project Successes and Realities
Peter Moore, Gustavo Rahmer

72. MONSOON Image Acquisition System Configuration
Gustavo Rahmer, Peter C. Moore

73. Current Status of the OSIRIS-GTC Instrument Control System
Enrique Joven, José V. Gigante, Marta Aguiar, José C. López-Ruiz, Alberto Herrera, Guillermo A. Herrera, Ángeles Pérez, Jordi Cepa, Francis Beigbeder

74. EMIR Detector Data Acquisition Electronics
José Javier Diaz, Fernando Gago, Pablo López, Francis Beigbeder, Francisco Garzón, Jesús Patrón

75. Improved Control Electronics for OSIRIS-GTC Commercial Tunable Filters
José V. Gigante, Guillermo A. Herrera, José L. Rasilla, Enrique Joven, Marta Aguiar, Alberto Herrera, José C. López, Victor Gonz´lez, Fernando Gago, Ángeles Pérez, M. Rodríguez Valido, Jordi Cepa

76. A Dedicated Controller for Adaptive Optics L3CCD Developments
Jean-Luc Gach, Philippe Balard, Olivier Boissin, Mark Downing, Philippe Feautrier, Christian Guillaume, Eric Stadler

77. Characterization of the OPA350 Operational Amplifier at Cryogenic Temperatures
Fernando Gago, José Javier Diaz, Francisco Garzón, Jesús Patrón

78. A Simple Technique for the Suppression of Line Frequency Noise in IR Array Systems
Bruce Atwood, Jerry A. Mason, Daniel Pappalardo

79. SCUBA-2 CCD-Style Imaging for the JCMT
Maureen Ellis

80. The Astronomical Array Control & Acquisition System at NAOC
Zhaowang Zhao, Binxun Ye

81. HIAC- A High Speed Camera Controller for Avalanche-Gain CCDs
Marc Baril, Tim Hardy

82. The Antarctic NIR/MIR Camera AMICA
Fabio Bortoletto, Maurizio D'Alessandro, Carlotta Bonoli, Daniela Fantinel, Enrico Giro, Demetrio Magrin, Leonardo Corcione, Danilo Pelusi, Croce Giuliani, Amico di Cianno, Vincenzo Caprio, Alberto Riva

83. A New Generation of Data and Control Interfaces for Digital Detectors
Fabio Bortoletto, Maurizio D'Alessandro, Enrico Giro, Rosario Cosentino, Massimiliano Belluso, Alessandro Carbone, Marco Gemma

84. McDonald Observatory nRG Detector Electronics
Joseph R. Tufts, Phillip J. MacQueen

85. Integrating Signal Processing and A/D CONVERSION in One Focal Plane Mounted ASIC
Armin Karcher, Christopher J. Bebek, Maximilian Fabricius, Brad Krieger, Hendrik Lippe, Markus Redelstab, Jean Pierre Walder

86. SIDECAR ASIC - Control Electronics on a Chip
Markus Loose, James W. Beletic, John Blackwell, Shane Jacobsen, Don Hall

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation