In the past year, there has been substantial impetus for NASA to consider missions that are of relatively low cost as a trade off for a higher new mission launch rate. To maintain low mission cost, these missions will be of short duration and will use smaller launch vehicles (e.g. Pegasus). Consequently, very low volume, very low mass instrument (a.k.a. miniature instrument) payloads will be required. Furthermore, it is anticipated that the number of instruments flown on a particular mission will also be highly constrained; consequently increased instrument capability will also be desired. In the case of infrared instruments, focal planes typically require cooling to ensure high performance of the detectors, especially in the case of spectrometers where high D* is necessary. In this paper, we discuss the InGaAs detector technology and its potential.


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    Title :

    InGaAs Detectors for Miniature Infrared Instruments


    Contributors:
    Krabach, T. N. (author) / Staller, C. (author) / Dejewski, S. (author) / Cunningham, T. (author) / Herring, M. (author) / Fossum, E. R. (author)

    Conference:

    International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE): Infrared Systems Engineering


    Publication date :

    1993-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English



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