Raytheon Company

Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC

Angelika Kononenko

Christian M Boemler

William E Tennant

Atul Joshi

Selim Eminoglu

Jehyuk Rhee

John C Stevens

David J Chiaverini

Gananath Wijeratne

Methods and apparatus for a dual mode focal plane array having a background module including a first capacitor to integrate a first signal for a first amount of time, wherein the first signal comprises a background signal, and a signal module including a second capacitor to integrate a second signal for a second amount of time, wherein the second signal comprises a signal of interest and the background signal, wherein the first and second capacitors have impedance values in a first ratio, and wherein the first amount of time and the second amount of time define a second ratio corresponding to the first ratio.

Focal plane array having ratioed capacitors

Embodiments of a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) include a plurality of unit cells. Each unit cell includes a bias subsystem, a reset switch, at least one integration capacitor, and at least one read switch. A focal plane array includes a plurality of photo detectors disposed in a grid and a ROIC. A column buffer includes a first buffer subsystem, a feedback subsystem, a first and second correlated double sampling subsystem, and a second buffer subsystem. A ROIC includes at least one integration subsystem having a transistor subsection, a poly silicon layer, and a plurality of active layer sections.

Multi-color read-out integrated circuit

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