SuperHawk
Medium Wave Infrared Detector
The SuperHawk infrared detector is a 1280 x 1024 array of pixels on an 8 μm pitch, manufactured using a Metal Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) process with Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) detector material grown on low-cost substrates.
The SuperHawk detector offers four times as many pixels in the same active image area as conventional 640 x 512 16 μm pitch products. In addition, the SuperHawk offers a 1280 x 720 mode of operation, providing an easy High Definition upgrade in a smaller optical footprint than alternative 15 μm Standard Definition products.
Using mesa diode structures, the 8 μm pitch pixels in the SuperHawk detector have negligible blur from optical scattering, electrical cross-talk, or carrier diffusion to achieve a near-perfect modulation transfer function (MTF), resulting in the sharpest images typically characterized by the company’s unique technology.
- Key Benefits
- Key Features
- Technical Specifications
- Compact
- Low power
- High resolution
- More pixels on target
- Easy interface with digital proximity electronics
- Medium waveband (3.7-5 μm)
- 1280 x 1024 format
- 8 μm x 8 μm pixels
- SXGA format
- Selectable 720-HD format
- Easy SXGA upgrade from 16μm sensors
- Easy HD upgrade from 15μm SD formats
- Negligible pixel blur
- >110 K operation
- 120 frames per second
Format
- Array size: Mode 1: 1280 x 1024 pixels, Mode 2: 1280 x 720 pixels
- Pixel pitch: 8 μm
- Active area: Mode 1: 10.24 x 8.19 mm, Mode 2: 10.24 x 5.76 mm
- Image diagonal: Mode 1: 13.1 mm, Mode 2: 11.75 mm
Electro-Optic
- Spectral bandwidth: 3.7 μm to 4.95 μm
- ƒ-number: ƒ/2.8 (standard) other ƒ-number options available
- Cold stop: 19 mm above FPA
- NETD: 20 mK (typical)
- Pixel operability: >99.8% (typical)
- Operating temperature: 110 K
ROIC
- Snapshot modes: ITR or IWR
- Windowing: Programmable
- Charge handling capacity: 5Me-/3Me- selectable
- Linearity: ±0.5%
- Number of outputs: 8
- Pixel rate: 160 Mpix/sec
Proximity Electronics
- Supply voltage: 5 V
- Power: <2.5 W
- Interface: Digital
- ADC resolution: 14 bits
- Video output: Serial LVDS
IDCA
- Cooler: RM2 (standard) other cooler options available
- Weight: 350 g (with RM2)
- Cooldown time: <5 minutes
- Power consumption: from 6 W
- Operating temperature: -40°C to +70°C