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25 September 2012 A test-based comparison between technologies implemented in commercial cameras for high contrast imaging applications
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LAM is developing a high-contrast imaging testbeds for in-lab demonstration of new instrumental concepts requiring high contrast imaging: in particular, for solar and stellar coronagraphy applications. In such applications, a faint target has to be detected close to a very bright source. For these test-benches, a high-dynamic range detector is required to characterize and/or to determine the performance of a new concept. Beyond the capability to detect the target, an imaging detector has to be accurate, reliable and provide reproducible performances. In order to identify a commercial camera for the development of laboratory demonstrators working with high contrast scenes, we carried out a test campaign at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) evaluating several cameras implementing different detector technologies. This paper presents the results of the test campaign, carried out at LAM, providing a quantitative comparison between the investigated technologies
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M. Pancrazzi, F. Landini, S. Vives, C. Escolle, M. N'Diaye, M. Focardi, and C. Guillon "A test-based comparison between technologies implemented in commercial cameras for high contrast imaging applications", Proc. SPIE 8453, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy V, 84531C (25 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926014
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KEYWORDS
Cameras

Sensors

Charge-coupled devices

Camera shutters

CCD cameras

Coronagraphy

Photons

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