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FLAMES—High Speed Flash-LiDAR CMOS Imager for Landing Missions

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Space-based Lidar Remote Sensing Techniques and Emerging Technologies (LIDAR 2023)

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A high-speed Flash-LiDAR CMOS image sensor which is named FLAMES for landing missions is presented. The sensor features 1280(H) × 1024(V) array size with a pixel pitch of 14 µm. It offers a full-frame capture rate of 500 fps, up to 2000 fps for smaller ROI, such as 500(H) × 500(V). The sensor can operate in 3 different modes, and its time gating sharpness is anticipated to be faster than 5 ns. When correlated double sampling (CDS) is utilized, the readout noise is expected to be less than 10 e-. This paper discusses the architecture of FLAMES sensor, the design considerations employed to achieve high speed and fast time gating and presents relevant simulation results.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the great support from Dr. Pol Ribes Pleguezuelo and Dr. Matthew Soman from the European Space Agency (ESA), and Etesian Semiconductor for TCAD simulations.

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  1. Caeleste CVBA, Hendrik Consciencestraat 1B, 2800, Mechelen, Belgium

    Gaozhan Cai, Victor Schuddinck, Amir Babaiefishani, Koen Liekens, Benjamin Van Camp, Ahmed Mahmoud, Rishabh Nagarkar & Bart Dierickx

  2. SINTEF, Strindvegen 4, 7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Karl Haugholt, Baard Nossum, Havard Torring & Anders Hansen

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  1. NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Engineering and Safety Center, Hampton, VA, USA

    Upendra N. Singh

  2. ESA - ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Georgios Tzeremes

  3. NASA Langley Research Center, Remote Sensing Branch, Hampton, VA, USA

    Tamer F. Refaat

  4. ESA - ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Pol Ribes Pleguezuelo

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Cai, G. et al. (2024). FLAMES—High Speed Flash-LiDAR CMOS Imager for Landing Missions. In: Singh, U.N., Tzeremes, G., Refaat, T.F., Ribes Pleguezuelo, P. (eds) Space-based Lidar Remote Sensing Techniques and Emerging Technologies. LIDAR 2023. Springer Aerospace Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53618-2_26

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