Noise analysis and comparison of analog and digital readout integrated circuits for infrared focal plane arrays

Proceedings - 43rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 695-700

  Andreou, Andreas G ^a   Pouliquen, Philippe O ^a   Rizk, Charbel ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL READOUTS; ELECTRON NOISE; HIGH FIDELITY; INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; NOISE ANALYSIS; NOISE MODELS; OVER SAMPLING RATIO; OVERSAMPLED; WELL CAPACITY;

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

EID: 70349866358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CISS.2009.5054808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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