UCLA double-beam infrared camera system

Ian S. McLean; Eric E. Becklin; George Brims; John Canfield; Suzanne Casement; Donald Frank Figer; Frank Henriquez; Anthony Huang; W. Timothy Liu; Bruce A. Macintosh; Harry I. Teplitz

doi:10.1117/12.158704

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20 October 1993 UCLA double-beam infrared camera system

Ian S. McLean, Eric E. Becklin, George Brims, John Canfield, Suzanne Casement, Donald Frank Figer, Frank Henriquez, Anthony Huang, W. Timothy Liu, Bruce A. Macintosh, Harry I. Teplitz

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Proceedings Volume 1946, Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158704
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a new infrared imaging system being developed at UCLA for use on both the Lick Observatory 3-m telescope and the W.M. Keck 10-m telescope. The instrument has a relatively wide field of view on each telescope and is intended for infrared surveys and deep imaging. To enhance efficiency, the new instrument incorporates a dichroic beam splitter to provide two simultaneous imaging systems, one short-wave (SW) from 1 - 2.5 micrometers and one long-wave (LW) from 2 - 5 micrometers . Each wavelength channel is independently optimized. The SW channel contains a Rockwell NICMOS3 256 X 256 HgCdTe array and the LW channel has an SBRC 256 X 256 InSb array. The thermal design employs a closed cycle cooler. A control and data acquisition system based on transputers and high speed analog electronics is being developed to handle the high data rates.

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Ian S. McLean, Eric E. Becklin, George Brims, John Canfield, Suzanne Casement, Donald Frank Figer, Frank Henriquez, Anthony Huang, W. Timothy Liu, Bruce A. Macintosh, and Harry I. Teplitz "UCLA double-beam infrared camera system", Proc. SPIE 1946, Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation, (20 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158704

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