WORKSHOP PAPER
A 2/3-inch Low Noise HDTV FT CCD-Imager for 1080i180, 1080p90 and 720p120 Scanning at Constant Image Diagonal
Peter Centen1, Holger Stoldt2, Jan Visser3, Jan T. Bosiers2
1Thomson Grass Valley, Kapittelweg 10, 4827HG Breda, The Netherlands.
2DALSA Professional Imaging, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
3NIKHEF, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Abstract

A novel broadcast FT-imager is presented that supports the 1080i, 1080p and 720p HDTV scanning formats at constant image diagonal. For super slow motion applications in 1080i/p it scans in 180 interlaced fields/sec or 90 progressive frames/sec or 120 frames/second in 720p. The anti-alias filtering is in the charge domain, automatically adapted to the scanning format. The imager reaches a pixel rate of 223Mpixel/sec. The on-chip amplifier has a bandwidth >241MHz. At 112MHz it has a Noise Electron Density of NED=0.59 e2/MHz and after CDS, 8 electrons in 30MHz bandwidth.
Publisher: IISS (Int. Image Sensors Society)
Year: 2009
Workshop: IISW
URL: https://doi.org/10.60928/v1wc-0lpq
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Keywords

FT-imager, HDTV scanning formats, noise electron density,

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