16 March 2022 Design of CCD test platform of scientific imaging for wide field survey telescope
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Abstract

The wide field survey telescope (WFST) is a new generation survey telescope that is being built in China. Its optical design is a primary-focus system, and its camera is a mosaic charge-coupled device (CCD) camera composed of nine 9  K  ×  9  K CCD290-99 chips for scientific imaging. A verification platform to test the CCD290-99 chips is designed. The test platform includes a light source system, CCD controller, vacuum Dewar, and refrigerator for cooling the CCD. The CCD controller is a prototype design of the WFST camera that has a high performance, including low readout noise, flexible readout rate configuration, low power dissipation, etc. The digital double correlated sample method is used for video sampling of the CCD’s 16 channels. The specifications of the CCD detector system using a CCD290, such as gain, noise linearity, and crosstalk, are tested using this platform. The test results show that the CCD test platform meets the requirement of the CCD test and the design of CCD controller meets the scientific imaging requirements for the WFST camera.

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Cheng Chen, Jun Zhang, Hongfei Zhang, Jian Wang, Qi-Jie Tang, Hui Wang, Zhiyue Wang, Yi-Hao Zhang, Wei-Jie Jiang, Jin-Ting Chen, Qi Feng, Feng Zeng, Qian Zhang, Jie Zhu, and Han-Fei Zhu "Design of CCD test platform of scientific imaging for wide field survey telescope," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 8(1), 016005 (16 March 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.016005
Received: 11 June 2021; Accepted: 22 February 2022; Published: 16 March 2022
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KEYWORDS
Charge-coupled devices

Telescopes

Optical instrument design

CCD image sensors

Sensors

Field programmable gate arrays

Cameras

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