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The Orion program is a project to develop a 2K × 2K infrared focal plane using InSb p-on-n diodes for detectors. It is the natural follow-up to the successful Aladdin 1K × 1K program started in the early 90's. The work is being done at the Raytheon Infrared Operations Division (RIO, previously known as the Santa Barbara Research Center) by many of the same people who created the Aladdin focal plane. The design is very similar to the successful Aladdin design with the addition of reference pixels, whole array readout (no quadrants), two-adjacent-side buttability, and a packaging design that includes going directly to the ultimate focal plane size of 4K × 4K. So far we have successfully made a limited number of hybrid modules with InSb detectors. In this paper we will describe the design features and test data taken from some of these devices.
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Fowler, A.M., Merrill, K.M., Ball, W. et al. Orion: A 1–5 Micron Focal Plane for the 21st Century. Experimental Astronomy 14, 61–68 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026154825645
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026154825645