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What does FPA stand for?

Focal Plane Array


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Byline: Mamta03 CACI International Inc announced today that it has been awarded a $50 million prime contract to support the Infrared Focal Plane Array (FPA) Technology (IFT) branch of the U.
Riley, president and general manager of Teledyne Scientific & Imaging was awarded the Henry Levinstein Award for a lifetime of achievement in "outstanding technical and management contributions in the development of Focal Plane Arrays for the military sensing community and national defense.
The Thousand Oaks-based imaging and electronics developer, a privately held research spinoff of Rockwell International, will provide infrared focal plane arrays for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The infrared cameras feature very high performance, high sensitivity (less than 20mK) and high frame rate (up to 320 fps) as a result of the use of the highly regarded SofradirA; advanced MCT focal plane array technology.
With the introduction of Flir System's European Triple QWIP 8-9 pm focal plane array, the Ultraforce II sees its zoom capability increased considerably, as well as providing a narrow field-of-view ([is less than] 1 [degrees]).
3 million contract to develop and demonstrate a new near-mid wavelength infrared active detection receiver system based on the company's unique Mercury Cadmium Telluride (HgCdTe) electron avalanche photodiode (e-APD) focal plane array (FPA) technology.
The three-band SWIR detector uses Sofradirs Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT/HgCdTe) focal plane array, a technology which is space qualified and that offers the highest performance for IR object-identification.
Judson's capabilities in detector packaging and the production of dewar and cooler assemblies are highly complementary to Teledyne Scientific & Imaging's strength in advanced detector materials and the design of large format focal plane arrays and imaging electronics.

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