Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984apopt..23.1308l&link_type=abstract
Applied Optics (ISSN 0003-6935), vol. 23, May 1, 1984, p. 1308, 1309. NASA-supported research.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Jfet, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Transistor Amplifiers, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Integrated Circuits, Metal Oxide Semiconductors
Scientific paper
It is shown how a simple integrating amplifier based on commercially available JFET and MOSFET switches can be used to measure photocurrents from detectors with noise levels as low as 1.6 x 10 to the -18th A/root Hz (10 electrons/sec). A figure shows the basic circuit, along with the waveform at the output. The readout is completely nondestructive; the reset noise does not contribute since sampling of the accumulated charge occurs between resets which are required only when the stored charge has reached a very high level. The storage capacity ranges from 10 to the 6th to 10 to the 9th electrons, depending on detector parameters and linearity requirements. Data taken with an Si:Sb detector operated at 24 microns are presented. The responsivity agrees well with the value obtained by Young et al. (1981) in the transimpedance amplifier circuit. The data are seen as indicating that extremely low values of NEP can be obtained for integration times of 1 sec and that longer integrations continue to improve the SNR at a rate faster than the square root of time when background noise is not present.
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