The G12242-0707W from Hamamatsu Photonics is an InGaAs Area Image Sensor that has a spectral response of 0.95 µm - 1.7 µm. It has a hybrid structure that consists of a CMOS readout circuit (ROIC: readout integrated circuit) and back-illuminated InGaAs photodiodes. This near-IR image sensor has a switchable global/rolling shutter that delivers a maximum frame rate of up to 258 fps with an effective pixel resolution of 16384 pixels. It has a peak sensitivity wavelength of 1.55 µm and photosensitivity of 0.8 A/W. This SWIR sensor has a conversion efficiency of 1 µV/e (at 0.08 pF) and a photoresponse non-uniformity of ±10 % at an integration time of 5 s (after subtracting dark output).
The G12242-0707W has a pixel size of 20 µm x 20 µm, pixel pitch of 20 µm and an image size of 2.56 mm x 2.56 mm. It has a readout noise of 500 µV rms (at 10 ms) and dynamic range of 2200. This SWIR sensor has a saturation charge of 1000 ke- and saturation output voltage of 1.1 V. It has a dark output voltage of 0.3 V, dark current of 0.5 pA, and dark output non-uniformity of ±0.05 V. This SWIR sensor has maximum clock frequency of 20 MHz and video data rate of 4 MHz.
The G12242-0707W has a two-stage thermoelectric cooler that requires an allowable current of 0.9 A and voltage of 0.8 V. This SWIR sensor has a borosilicate glass window with an anti-reflective coating. It requires a DC supply voltage of 5 V and consumes 20 mA of current. This SWIR sensor is available in a hermetically sealed TO-8 16-pin metal package and is ideal for thermal image monitoring, laser beam profilers, near-infrared image detection, and foreign object detection applications.