The CAOS camera platform: Ushering in a paradigm change in extreme dynamic range imager design

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Abstract

Multi-pixel imaging devices such as CCD, CMOS and Focal Plane Array (FPA) photo-sensors dominate the imaging world. These Photo-Detector Array (PDA) devices certainly have their merits including increasingly high pixel counts and shrinking pixel sizes, nevertheless, they are also being hampered by limitations in instantaneous dynamic range, inter-pixel crosstalk, quantum full well capacity, signal-to-noise ratio, sensitivity, spectral flexibility, and in some cases, imager response time. Recently invented is the Coded Access Optical Sensor (CAOS) Camera platform that works in unison with current Photo-Detector Array (PDA) technology to counter fundamental limitations of PDA-based imagers while providing high enough imaging spatial resolution and pixel counts. Using for example the Texas Instruments (TI) Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) to engineer the CAOS camera platform, ushered in is a paradigm change in advanced imager design, particularly for extreme dynamic range applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEmerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications IX
EditorsMichael R. Douglass, Benjamin L. Lee
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510606753
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
EventEmerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications IX - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 30 Jan 201731 Jan 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume10117
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceEmerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications IX
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period30/01/1731/01/17

Keywords

  • Camera
  • Digital Micromirror Device
  • Imaging Device
  • Optical Imager

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