3 papers
astro-ph.IM2024
Glow reduction of ultra-low noise LmAPDs: towards photon counting infrared arrays
Guillaume Huber, Michael Bottom, Charles-Antoine Claveau +5
Spectroscopy and direct-imaging of ultra-faint targets such as Earth-like exoplanets and high redshift galaxies are among the primary goals of upcoming large scale astronomy projec…
astro-ph.IM2022
First tests of a 1 megapixel near-infrared avalanche photodiode array for ultra-low background space astronomy
Charles-Antoine Claveau, Michael Bottom, Shane Jacobson +10
Spectroscopy of Earth-like exoplanets and ultra-faint galaxies are priority science cases for the coming decades. Here, broadband source flux rates are measured in photons per squa…
astro-ph.IM2022
Sub-electron noise infrared camera development using Leonardo large format 2Kx2K SWIR LmAPD array
Philippe Feautrier, Jean-Luc Gach, Dan Owton +4
There have been no significant breakthroughs in infrared imagery since the hybridization of III-V or II-VI narrow-bandgap semiconductors on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor…