Blackbird 1920 is a state-of-the-art MWIR detector, which is an extension to the High Definition family of detectors at SCD. It includes a 3 Mega-pixel FPA in 1920×1536 pixels format and 10μm pitch. The new FPA is based on SCD’s mature InSb technology and on a digital readout circuit implemented in advanced CMOS process. The FPA is very similar in size to SCD’s SXGA format Hercules detector and can actually be packaged in the same Dewar. This yields a very large format detector with outstanding image quality, high frame rate, and relatively compact size.
